Lori Lightfoot Delivers Emotional Farewell Speech

Mayor Lori Lightfoot did what any outgoing elected official would in a farewell speech: tout her accomplishments, thank her team and key stakeholders and highlight how her constituents benefited from her programs.
Yet, in her last week as mayor of the nation’s third-largest city, she also revealed the enormity of her challenges in guiding Chicago through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, something no other mayor in modern history had to face.
“There were certainly times when the sheer n