Lori Lightfoot owes her election to the corruption scandal still swirling around indicted Ald. Edward Burke (14th), but she has not been the reform mayor she promised to be.
That’s the no-holds-barred assessment from former Inspector General Joe Ferguson. His 12-year run as Chicago’s top watchdog ended last fall when he resigned to avoid being pushed out by Lightfoot, who had frozen him out, repeatedly criticized him and made it clear she had no intention of reappointing him.
