Reporter Yvette Shields, foremost expert in municipal finance who was ‘so brilliant but so kind,’ dies at 57 – Chicago Sun-Times

“She brought accountability and transparency to municipal finance in a way that is so critically important in this moment,” said Jennie Huang-Bennett, Chicago’s chief financial officer under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. “And between the passing of Laurence Msall and Yvette, it’s an enormous hole that we have to fill.”

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