Can Mayor Lori Lightfoot pull off reelection in Chicago? Nightly reports👇
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot participates in a forum with other mayoral candidates. | Erin Hooley/AP Photo— It’s not easy to unseat a big-city mayor, particularly in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city. Richard J. Daley and his son, Richard M. Daley, served in the post for more than 40 years combined. Between 1989 and 2019, Chicago only had two mayors: the younger Daley and Rahm Emanuel. But after one term in office, Mayor Lori Lightfoot looks to be in trouble.
When Lightfoot was first elected in 2019, she was feted as the first Black woman and first openly gay mayor of Chicago. While she has won praise for progress on her community development plans on the city’s South and West sides, Lightfoot has battled with unions representing police officers and teachers, and opponents are hammering on the point that she hasn’t done enough about the crime rate in the city., the author of POLITICO’s Illinois Playbook. This conversation has been edited.
A lot has to do with perception. Many of Chicago’s residents — those who live in neighborhoods with historically high and historically low crime rates — are frustrated with her performance and see crime rising around them. Lightfoot is putting more resources into neighborhoods to combat crime on the ground, but it’s not something that can be fixed overnight. The Police Department has released numbers showing murders are down and carjackings are down. But that hasn’t seemed to change perception.
The irony in your question is that he just came out with a public safety policy statement that political observers say mirrored Lightfoot’s but for calling for the police chief to be fired. Garcia has set himself apart by saying he will be “collaborative,” which is a dig at Lightfoot, who has been criticized as an agitator. She came into office with a mandate to shake things up and piss people off and she did that — curbing power by aldermen, for example.
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