The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis

Written by:
Gregory Royal Pratt
Narrated by:
Christopher Douyard

Unabridged Audiobook

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1
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1
Release Date
April 2024
Duration
8 hours 4 minutes
Summary
Chicago is a world-class city, but it is also a city in crisis.

Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers' union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug of war between the city's haves and have nots.

For four years, the person at the center of this storm was Lori Lightfoot. A groundbreaking figure-the first Black, gay woman to be elected mayor of a major city and only the second female mayor of Chicago-she knew the city was at a critical turning point when she took office in 2019. But the once-in-a-lifetime challenges she ended up facing were beyond anything she or anyone else saw coming.

Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Royal Pratt offers the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous single term of Mayor Lightfoot and the chaos that roiled the city and City Hall as she fought to live up to her promises to change the city's culture of corruption and villainy, reform its long-troubled police department, and make Chicago the safest big city in America.
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Exquisite writing, fierce insight, and an overall joy to read. As someone who was involved in a grassroots organization that endorsed the former mayor and worked very hard to get her elected, I became disillusioned a short time into her term as mayor. After reading the book, I gained insight into the challenges, missteps, and overall culture of the administration and the key players. Anyone interested in politics, American or specifically Chicago politics, will enjoy every minute of this can't-put-down book. I gave the narrator a low rating since there were repetitive statements within the context of an email read that should have been summarized as she said '20 times the said this' ...rather than reading each sentence over and over again.

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