Lori Lightfoot: “The White House says they've been in touch with both you and the governor to quote, assess your needs.”

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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, some people like to politicize the pandemic. And that's not just something that happens on one side of the political divide.