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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Analysis: How Lightfoot went from political rock star to rock bottom

Mayor Michael A. Bilandic (left) in 1977; Mayor Lori Lightfoot (center) in January; Mayor Jane Byrne in 1983. (Jim Mescall, Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file; Sun-Times archives)

Four years ago, she was a darling among national Democrats. The first openly gay Black woman to serve as mayor of Chicago and only the second woman to do so in the city’s history.

On Tuesday, she joined Jane Byrne and Michael Bilandic as the the only elected mayors of Chicago to be denied a second term since Prohibition.

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