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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

FOP raises union dues to create $2.5 million political action committee ‘powerhouse’

Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara, shown at a pro-police rally in Grant Park in 2020. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Last fall, Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara compared Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s vaccine mandate to the midnight destruction of Meigs Field and warned City Council members who refused to stand against it that “we are coming for every one of your damn seats” in 2023.

Now, Catanzara is taking steps to make good on that threat — by putting some union money where his mouth is.

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