Only 16 Chicago police officers are on no-pay status for defying the city’s vaccine mandate, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday, dismissing the possibility that mass firings will be needed in the middle off an unrelenting wave of violent crime.
After a lengthy City Hall news conference called to mark the two-year anniversary of the shutdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, Lightfoot chose to see the glass as half-full, not half-empty.
