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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChicago's new mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is out to end corruption -- starting with the Aldermen.
I'm still wondering if the Democratic Alderman, Ed Burke, who was involved in permitting Trump Tower, will wind up caught in the Trump web. He's been indicted for other matters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/us/lori-lightfoot-inauguration.html
CHICAGO With the members of the City Council, former Mayor Richard M. Daley and Mayor Rahm Emanuel looking on, Lori Lightfoot was sworn in as Chicagos 56th mayor on Monday, lauding the citys resilience and diversity while also vowing to kill old-style Chicago politics.
For years, they said Chicago aint ready for reform, said Ms. Lightfoot, 56, a former federal prosecutor, addressing the crowd of thousands who had gathered in an arena on a blustery May day. Well, get ready, because reform is here.
Ms. Lightfoots inauguration made history. She is the citys first openly gay mayor. When she won all of Chicagos 50 wards in April, the city became the largest ever to elect an African-American woman as its mayor.
One of her first orders of business, Ms. Lightfoot said, would be ending an unwritten rule that gives aldermen unfettered zoning and permitting power in their own wards.
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(25,908 posts)Corruption is anathema to democracy.
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(67,361 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I sure hope she can do it! A hundred plus years of corruption!