Not only was Brown the subject of several investigations into her fundraising and hiring practices, she also failed to modernize the office with basic technology despite pledging every campaign cycle to do so. A recent rollout of a computerized upgrade to the criminal court system flopped. Cleaning up that mess and installing a reliable electronic case-management system should be priority No. 1 for the next clerk.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she is “very serious” about the city growing its own recreational marijuana to give minorities a chance to learn the business and share the wealth and said $15 million generated by tax-increment financing could be used as seed money.

Lightfoot said the concept of the city opening a “cooperative cultivation center” that minorities can “buy into” — either with a “modest cash investment” or with “sweat equity” — is aimed at overcoming the biggest impediment to minority ownership.