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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Chip Mitchell | WBEZ Chicago

Chicago’s confrontational police union boss is facing tough reelection challenger

Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara speaks to reporters as he walks out of a Chicago Police Board hearing in the Loop, Nov. 15, 2021. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

A formidable candidate is trying to unseat John Catanzara as head of the union for Chicago’s 10,000 rank-and-file cops. 

But officers of color, women and political moderates in CPD may find Det. Robert Bartlett similar to the incumbent. Both are white men in a union long run by white men. 

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