Editorial: New mayor, new City Council. Perfect time for needed campaign reform.
All’s fair in love, war … and campaigning. At least that’s what some political candidates think.
During her unsuccessful bid for reelection as mayor, Lori Lightfoot’s campaign tried to recruit Chicago Public Schools students for political work, dangling extra credit as a carrot. Her team also solicited city workers for campaign help, and as the Lightfoot’s camp had been told to stop the electioneering nearly a year
