Lori Lightfoot: “I'm never going to let anybody, including a President, diminish the greatness of Chicago.”

I think we've made significant progress over the last few days. But I want to deal done this weekend. Our kids need back -- be back in school, schools are safe.

This is an unnecessary and illegal work stoppage. And I've drawn the line, we are not going to remote for the whole system. It's completely unnecessary.

I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to mitigate it.

Look, every mayor's going to tell you that they need more resources. What we've seen that's been successful is the things that I talked about before, but we've also I think done a lot with diversion at the police station.