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Clarence Page: Note to Mayor Lightfoot and Team Trump: Politics should help, not hurt law enforcement

As marriages of convenience go, Chicago’s crime-fighting partnership with the Trump administration looks awkward at best, strikingly in need of a pastor or perhaps a referee.

Attorney General William Barr was in town Wednesday to update the city on “Operation Legend,” a Department of Justice effort to help curb a horrendous surge in violent crime across the country.

Yet, conspicuously absent from Barr’s

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