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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Lightfoot denies playing politics with police pension board

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, shown withChicago Police Supt. David Brown at a July 2021 news conference in Lawndale, emphatically denied getting involved in police pension board decisions. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Chicago has a “long and sordid history” of politicians “bending the pension code to their will,” but “those days are over,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared Tuesday.

One week before the mayoral election, Lightfoot felt the need to personally deny allegations by Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza.

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