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The City Is Up for Grabs

The City Is Up for Grabs

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  • Release Date: 31/05/2024
  • Barcode: 9781641605991
  • Genre: Biography
  • Label: Chicago Review Press
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • Subgenre: Social Sciences
The City Is Up for Grabs

The City Is Up for Grabs

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How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis
Chicago is a world-class city but it is also a city in crisis.
 
Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers’ union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug of war between the city’s haves and have nots.
 
Enter first-term mayor and rookie politician Lori Lightfoot, who found herself at the center of this storm. A groundbreaking figure as the first Black, gay woman to be elected mayor of a major city and only the second female mayor of Chicago, she knew the city was at a critical turning point when she took office in 2019. But the once-in-a-lifetime challenges she ended up facing were beyond anything she or anyone else saw coming. 

Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Pratt offers a behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous single term of Mayor Lightfoot and the chaos roiling the city and City Hall as Chicago fights to remain a global city.
 
Ultimately, the mayor’s temper, inability to build alliances, and inexperience have deepened the city’s vulnerabilities, leaving her isolated and throwing the city’s future into question.

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