Lightfoot outlines ambitious agenda for her first 100 days at City Hall – Chicago Sun-Times

• Keep Chicago safe — and young people occupied — by “flooding the zone” over Memorial Day weekend. • Prepare a budget that’s certain to include painful cuts and tax increases to satisfy a $277 million spike in pension payments and a budget shortfall more “dire” than she anticipated. • Build more affordable housing to stem Chicago’s population losses. • Bring equity to an overly-punitive ticketing policy that has unfairly targeted minority motorists and forced thousands into bankruptcy. • Level a playing field tilted in favor of Uber, Lyft and Via by: dramatically increasing ride-hailing fees; imposing a New York-style cap on ride-hailing licenses; banning out-of-state motorists who have flooded Chicago streets; or, perhaps, all three. • Reform a City Council bracing for what could be its biggest-ever corruption scandal — in part, by televising committee meetings and broadening the already-sweeping powers of Inspector General Joe Ferguson. • And seat a cabinet that’s likely to include at least some holdovers from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration.