Lori Lightfoot’s Downfall Is Bigger Than Just Chicago
Posted on AllSides March 1st, 2023
From The Left
In 2019, Lori Lightfoot took the stage in a downtown ballroom and promised to usher in “one Chicago, indivisible and united for all.” She had just won the runoff in a landslide, taking all 50 wards to become the first Black woman and openly gay person to lead America’s third largest city. Lightfoot, who had never held elected office until then, had not only vowed to usher in police reform in a city still reeling from the murder of Laquan McDonald and the handling of it by her predecessor; she'd...
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