CHICAGO — Even by Chicago politics’ standards, the recent spat between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Alderman Derrick Curtis is strange.
Curtis, a South Side alderman and firearms safety instructor, was one of the first members of City Council to endorse her reelection bid. But their relationship has soured in the past few months after he accidentally shot himself in the hand in October and complained to The Chicago Sun-Times that Lightfoot didn’t call him to check on his well-being.
Newly released text messages show that the relationship continued to be contentious in the days that followed, with Curtis turning the tables by not responding to a series of Lightfoot texts.
