Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot is the 56th mayor of Chicago. Prior to taking office in May 2019, she worked as an attorney and previously served as president of the Chicago Police Board, a civilian body responsible for deciding disciplinary matters involving allegations of police misconduct.
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"Chicago maintained the lowest unemployment rate through most of 2021 of any large American city."
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Cook County’s criminal courts “have been shut down for 15 months.”
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“Illinois lags way behind all of our neighbors and certainly we’re in the bottom tier of states that are doing testing."
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"Teachers in Chicago Public Schools are paid some of the highest compensation of any school system in the country."
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"We’ve got 600-plus police and fire pensions Downstate that are on the cusp of insolvency because they don’t have the revenues that they need to…
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Says there were "rumors floating around" that Chicago police union officials were "telling their officers, ‘don’t do anything. Over Memorial Day weekend, don’t intercede. If you see…
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Says the percentage of officers the Chicago Police Board fired after hearing their cases or who chose to resign prior to a board hearing roughly…
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Says Chicagoans "live in one of the most taxed cities and the most taxed county, unfortunately, in the country."
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"We are the only metropolitan area in the country that’s losing population."