Lori Lightfoot is the first Chicago mayor in decades to lose reelection. She placed third in a runoff a few weeks ago. The biggest reason is that crime numbers are horrible here in Chicago, and people blame her for that. "I want to understand why they didn't think she was doing a good job on crime"
Chicagoans feel unsafe, and many blame Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The two Democrats on the ballot to replace her have starkly different views on what the city should do next. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith and Mariah Woelfel explain.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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