Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has lost her bid for reelection, theAssociated Press reports. Lightfoot, 60, made history as the city’s first black woman and first gay person to be elected mayor in 2019. She failed to garner enough votes to get a second term on Tuesday, with her opponents, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson, advancing to a runoff after neither got the 50% of votes needed to win the race outright....

Photo: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC; Dina Rose Cimarusti/ Instagram They did surgery on a cake! On Tuesday, the cast and crew ofNBC’sChicago Medcommemorated the filming of their 100th episode at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios with an extremely creepy, incredibly realistic cake in the shape of a body on an operating table. The enormous celebratory dessert was made to resemble no one in particular and was wheeled in on a gurney. “I didn’t want to offend anyone, so it’s just a generic old man,” explained Dina Cimarusti, who usually does special effects for the medical drama and started making the cake on Friday....

Torrey DeVitto poses in wedding dress for bridal photoshoot.Photo:Nick Hiras Nick Hiras Torrey DeVittois already practicing for her big day! TheChicago Medalum, 39, dazzled in a recent bridal photoshoot for the cover and main feature of the story ofSophisticated Weddings, which hits the stands mid-March.PEOPLEobtained a sneak peek ofthe photoshoot featuring Devitto, who’s currentlyengaged to director Jared LaPine. In the stylish photos, thePretty Little Liarsactress wears two stunning wedding dresses....

Torrey DeVitto and Jared LaPine are set to wed!.Photo:Torrey DeVitto/InstagramTorrey DeVittois opening up about her engagement to Jared LaPine!The actress — who played Dr. Natalie Manningon medical showChicago Medfrom 2015 to 2021— revealed on Instagram Monday that LaPine, 33, got down on one knee earlier this month during a woodland walk.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories....

Photo: GoFundMe (2) Aleah Newell, 20, was charged Saturday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her two children:7-month-old Ameer and 2-year-old Johntavis. Newell also faces one count of attempted first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing her grandfather 10 times during last week’s deadly incident in and outside of a high-rise apartment. Newell remains hospitalized in critical condition, recovering from a broken wrist and ankle sustained when she jumped from the 11th floor of an apartment building last Thursday....

Photo: Facebook Marlen Ochoa-Lopez.Facebook • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?Click hereto get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters in April that the suspects wanted to “raise the child as their own” after Clarisa Figueroa allegedly faked a pregnancy, then called 911 on April 23 — the day the victim was last seen — to claim she’d just delivered a boy who was struggling to breathe....

Photo: facebookA Chicago mother was murdered in the same spot where her teenage son was killed just days prior, according to multiple reports.Early on Wednesday morning, Delisa Tucker died when she was fatally shot in the chest while visiting a memorial set up for her deceased son, Kevin Tinker,The New York Postreported.Tinker, 14, had been a victim of gun violence only days prior, dying at the same spot on Sunday.Tucker, 31, died as she was lighting candles for her son at a memorial, Michelle Tharpe, a family friend, detailed on aGoFundMe pageset up to help pay the family’s funeral expenses....

A Chicago mother who hoped to regain shared custody of her 11-year-old son following a judge’s recent ruling has been successful. During an Aug. 10 child support hearing with her ex-husband, “one of the first things” the judge asked Rebecca Firlit about was her vaccination status, the mother told told theChicago Sun-Times. Afterwards, she recalled asking the judge how the question related to the hearing, which was supposed to be “about expenses and child support” and said she was told, “I am the judge, and I make the decisions for your case....

A Chicago mother turned her new home into a 1970s-themed haven, bringing the funky decade back to life for her family. She shares the home with her husband Ian Wittig, 30, and children Rainer, 22, Zeke, 15 and Molly, 14. SWNS Purchasing secondhand items for the home was also an environmentally friendly move. “It feels like the right time to find alternatives to buying new due to climate change, so we turned to secondhand first,” she said....

Andris Wofford.Photo: GoFundMe “On December 9th, Lisa Young tragically lost Andris Wofford to murder. Andris was her only daughter, who left behind two beautiful little girls, Ava (6 years) and Averie (9 months),” aGoFundMe page states. Wofford, 29, was found dead in her Chicago apartment after her family had not heard from her for several hours and requested a welfare check, theChicago Sun-Timesreports. She had been shot in the head. The father of her younger daughter, 29-year-old Pierre Tyler, has been charged with first-degree murder....

Marina Squerciati on ‘Chicago P.D.'.Photo:Lori Allen/NBCWarning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday’s episode of Chicago P.D.The third time really might be the charm for Burzek fans.At the end of Wednesday’s episode ofChicago P.D., on-off couple Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) made the big decision to be officially “on.“After putting their adoptive daughter Makayla (Ramona Edith Williams) to bed, they discussed Kim’s great work on a moving immigration case earlier in the episode....

Tracy Spiridakos stars as Hailey Upton in season 10 of ‘Chicago P.D.'.Photo:Lori Allen/NBC via Getty Images Lori Allen/NBC via Getty Images Chicago P.D.is losing another fan-favorite character. Tracy Spiridakos, who has portrayed Detective Hailey Upton since joining the series in 2017, will make her final appearance as the character in season 11, PEOPLE can confirm. Varietywas the first to report the news. In a statement at the time, Soffer, 39, said, “I want to thank the incredible fans for their unwavering support during the past 10 years and want to express my deepest gratitude to Dick Wolf and everyone at Wolf Entertainment, Peter Jankowski, Matt Olmstead, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Rick Eid, Gwen Sigan, NBC, Universal Television, my fellow castmates and our incredible crew....

Photo: Google A Chicago police officer and two female staffers were among those killed after a shooting incident at Mercy Hospital in Chicago Monday. Anthony Guglielmi, Chief Communications Officer for the Chicago police, confirmed the news on Twitter that Officer Samuel Jimenez was fatally shot in the “senseless” tragedy. “It’s with profound sadness that we share the death of PO Samuel Jimenez from tonight’s senseless active shooter incident,” Guglielmi wrote. “Please pray for his family, his fellow officers & the entire #ChicagoPolice Department....