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Why Lightfoot Lost

reporter Gregory Royal Pratt is out with the first — and probably only (the title comes from a text she sent to an alderperson during 2020’s George Floyd riots) follows Lightfoot from her years as a federal prosecutor to her 2023 reelection loss. The morning after that defeat, Pratt received this damning text from a longtime Lightfoot aide, explaining the boss’s downfall:

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