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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

New Lightfoot ad touts her efforts against violent crime

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new campaign spot claims she has put more police on the streets and taken more guns off. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file)

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.”

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