Determined to cement her political legacy, Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed credit Tuesday for having filled the “two of the largest parcels of vacant land” on the long-neglected West Side her successor, Brandon Johnson, calls home.
Days before finishing third in the first round of mayoral balloting, Lightfoot had broken ground on a $68 million project intended to transform a notorious 21-acre dump site at Roosevelt and Kostner. It had come to be known as “Mount Henry” for the West Side alderman who allowed the environmental disaster to happen allegedly in exchange for bribes from an FBI mole.
