Here are a few facts about Chicago’s newly elected mayor, Lori Lightfoot
Chicago voters on Tuesday chose former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot to become the city’s first black female mayor. Ms. Lightfoot, who will take office in May, will also be the city’s first gay mayor. Here are five things to know about the new leader of the third-largest city in the U.S.:
1. Ms. Lightfoot, 56, gained political prominence as chair of the Police Accountability Task Force created in the wake of the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager shot 16 times and killed by an on-duty Chicago police...
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