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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Lightfoot ‘done with electoral politics for myself’ after Feb. 28 defeat

Mayor Lori Lightfoot greets at her election-night gathering at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council in River North on Feb. 28. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’s “done with electoral politics for myself” and believes she lost, in part, because it was “hard to break through the anger bubble” caused by the pandemic and civil unrest triggered by the murder of George Floyd.

Since finishing third Feb. 28 in the first round of mayoral balloting, Lightfoot, 60, had avoided post-mortem media interviews.

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