Earlier this year, Lightfoot made history as the first LGBTQ and black female mayor in America's third-largest city. Pride50
that her first executive order was to curtail “aldermanic privilege,” a bizarre local tradition in which neighborhood officials control all zoning and permitting requests, which critics claim fuels the city’s famed corruption.
Lightfoot’s ascension as the city’s 56th mayor signals the entrance of an outsider into the Chicago machine. A former prosecutor with no experience in elected office, Lightfoot defeated a long-time city council member after running an insurgent campaign promising to be a “change agent.
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