Mayor Lori Lightfoot pulls out of Crain’s roundtable to avoid being on same stage as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, sources say – Chicago Tribune

Lightfoot has a long, complicated history in the local police reform movement. She’s a former federal prosecutor who headed the board that oversees police discipline and chaired the Police Accountability Task Force formed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But she is often criticized by activists as being pro-police.
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3 years ago

Always optics with this woman.
Remember she is the face of Chicago and hence the reason she needed to be clean and have a hair cut.

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