Lori Lightfoot

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.

— Lori Lightfoot

I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected,…

— Lori Lightfoot

I'm not a person who puts things out in writing and policy prescriptions and is not intending to follow through.

— Lori Lightfoot

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are…

— Lori Lightfoot

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

— Lori Lightfoot

I don't think I'll be a good mayor if I don't live my authentic life, and that's got to be involved with…

— Lori Lightfoot

Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

— Lori Lightfoot

The whole circus surrounding Ed Burke, I knew immediately from my days as a federal prosecutor, was very, very serious.

— Lori Lightfoot

I support a progressive state income tax.

— Lori Lightfoot

I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I…

— Lori Lightfoot

Look, there's no question that we have a challenge with gun violence. But there's a lot more nuanced parts of that narrative,…

— Lori Lightfoot

We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn't determine your destiny.

— Lori Lightfoot

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health…

— Lori Lightfoot

Both my brothers played football. My mother had season tickets as a school board member. I was in the band, my sister…

— Lori Lightfoot

We have to get to a place in the city where our young officers understand that respectful, constitutional engagement with the community…

— Lori Lightfoot

Building channels for people to believe that the city sees them and hears them and is willing to invest, is going to…

— Lori Lightfoot

There's things that you can learn by being in the room with people that's different than talking to them over the phone…

— Lori Lightfoot

Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new…

— Lori Lightfoot

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community,…

— Lori Lightfoot

For more than two decades Chicagoans have routinely traveled to neighboring cities like Rosemont, Elgin, Joliet, Gary and Hammond to gamble. If…

— Lori Lightfoot

It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid…

— Lori Lightfoot

What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.

— Lori Lightfoot

You know, I can't afford to take anything for granted.

— Lori Lightfoot

We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health…

— Lori Lightfoot

When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids 'duck…

— Lori Lightfoot