With nine people on the ballot, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces an uphill battle for reelection — and might not even make it to the runoff.
, illegally landing in the hands of young people in and out of gangs.
Lightfoot turned her talk to the flow of weapons into the city, including her fight to take to court out-of-state gun shops. “I feel worse,” said one North Side Chicagoan who listened to the mayor’s remarks but didn’t want his name used. “I still don’t think she gets it.” “When you’re paying $20,000 in property taxes and there’s an armed robbery at 1 o’clock in the afternoon in your neighborhood, people feel that 20 grand isn’t getting your money’s worth,” said one.“People who are streetwise, from my point of view, are absolutely petrified. And they are moving,” said yet another.And one of those was Eddie Pulliam, who traveled from the city’s South Side to listen to Lightfoot that afternoon, and spoke of the deterioration of his neighborhood over time.
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