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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

City Council unanimously confirms Snelling as city’s top cop. Now the hard part.

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling is sworn in on Wednesday after being unanimously confirmed by the City Council. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Larry Snelling’s days in the $260,004-a-year hot seat reserved for Chicago’s police superintendent probably won’t get any better than Wednesday.

By a 48-0 vote, the Chicago City Council confirmed the man Mayor Brandon Johnson called a “son of Englewood,” with alderpersons from across the city singing his praises as the antithesis of David Brown, his unpopular predecessor.

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