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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Board of Ethics wants Lightfoot campaign investigated over recruiting student volunteers from CPS, City Colleges

Lightfoot held a news conference Jan. 12 to discuss an email her deputy campaign manager sent to CPS teachers, seeking to recruit Chicago Public Schools students to work on her reelection campaign. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

The Chicago Board of Ethics on Monday asked inspectors general for the city and Chicago Public Schools to investigate Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s re-election campaign to determine if the campaign violated the city’s ethics ordinance by recruiting student volunteers at CPS and City Colleges in exchange for class credit.

The vote came after a closed-door executive session. As always, neither the board’s agenda nor the summary of cases identified the subject of the investigation.

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