
Mayor Lori Lightfoot hit the airwaves Tuesday with a campaign ad confronting what mayoral challengers call her Achilles’ heel: violent crime and the perception of it.
The 30-second commercial begins with a middle-aged African American man walking down a neighborhood street with a newspaper under his arm shaking his head in apparent disagreement as his recorded voice says, “You wouldn’t know it by watching the news or listening to the haters.”