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Lori Lightfoot

American Politician

Born: Aug 4, 1962

Chicago Community Me People Think You

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Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the few, not the many. Lori Lightfoot

The only thing you have in your life is your integrity. Lori Lightfoot

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When I came out, it wasn't a big formal conversation like in the movies. I just started living as my true and authentic self and opened up my life to my parents - sharing who I was, and bringing a girlfriend when I came home for a visit. To my great surprise, my parents accepted me for who I was and have supported me since. Lori Lightfoot

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I think of being the mayor of a big city with so many incredible things happening - but also so many challenges and opportunities - as really being kind of the chief advocate for the people. Lori Lightfoot

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You know, I can't afford to take anything for granted. Lori Lightfoot

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For more than two decades Chicagoans have routinely traveled to neighboring cities like Rosemont, Elgin, Joliet, Gary and Hammond to gamble. If people in Chicago want to gamble, then they should be able to gamble in Chicago at a city-owned, land-based casino. Lori Lightfoot

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We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities. Lori Lightfoot

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I want to make sure that I am the leader that respects the fact that kids all over the city and hopefully all over the country really understand that they can do anything that they want to do, that they set their minds to do, as long as they've got good, strong support from adults and love to support them. Lori Lightfoot

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We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence. Lori Lightfoot

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We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and for everybody else it's something much harsher. That won't do and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity. Lori Lightfoot

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You know, when you get the White House operator and they say, 'Just a moment for the president of the United States,' that's a pretty heady moment. Lori Lightfoot

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One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever I get, you're not getting.' Changing that dynamic is going to be critically important for me as a leader, so that people don't feel they're pitted against each other. Lori Lightfoot

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I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life. Lori Lightfoot

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I do not support the city's red light camera system. This system was sold to Chicagoans as a public safety solution, but it's always really been about revenue, and we've seen that fines fall disproportionately on people of color. Lori Lightfoot

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While I am opposed to elected officials running for multiple offices simultaneously, or within several months of one another, I do not support a state law making it illegal. Lori Lightfoot

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Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory. Lori Lightfoot

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What I hear from folks all the time is 'us against them.' It is a core part of what they feel is happening with our government. Investing here, but not there. Listening to some, but not nearly enough. Going into certain neighborhoods, but not others. That divide is something we have to categorically reject. Lori Lightfoot

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It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid of the 'us versus them,' the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you're a campaign donor. Lori Lightfoot

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When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not. Lori Lightfoot

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When we ignore the will of the people, people lose. Lori Lightfoot

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I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin. Lori Lightfoot

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