As Chicago’s mayor enters her last week on the job before a transfer of power on May 15, the Tribune Opinion section tries to answer the question: How will Lori Lightfoot be remembered?
Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot listens to several goodbye speeches and praise by aldermen on her last day conducting a City Council on April 19, 2023.
To read each piece, click the links below.Lori Lightfoot had to deal with a situation faced by no previous mayor. You have to go back to Roswell B. Mason, mayor during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, to find a chief executive who was dealt a comparable catastrophe and that fire burned out far more quickly than COVID-19, a mine field for any pol.
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