David Greising writes: 'Lightfoot has learned there's no easy formula for running a city. And if a different candidate gets elected based on their big ideas, they, too, will learn just how tough it can be for Chicago's mayor to make the magic happen.'
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago first lady Amy Eshleman vote early for the midterm election at NEIU El Centro, Nov. 3, 2022.
Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas offered his own elixir when it came his turn on the City Club stage — whether fantastic or fantastical, you be the judge. He called it a “second Burnham plan.”Now, it’s cliché to conjure Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago as a metaphor for big thinking in Chicago. State Rep. Kambium “Kam” Buckner did it just days before, to his own City Club crowd.
Still, it’s good to see bold thinking. Chicago is in a fix and needs novel measures. The voters who go to the polls Feb. 28 will decide what makes sense and what might lead to decline or risk disaster. You name it, Johnson might tax it — in a city where the tax burden already is driving investment away. Good ideas? Bad ones? That’s why we have elections.
If you wonder why Lightfoot hasn’t conjured simple fixes to the city’s economic problems, in the ways that Vallas, Buckner, Johnson and others are doing, it may be because she knows just how tough the job can be.
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