bokomslag The City Is Up for Grabs
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The City Is Up for Grabs

Gregory Royal Pratt

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  • 224 sidor
  • 2024
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 citys haves and have nots. Enter first-term mayor and rookie politician Lori Lightfoot, who found herself at the center of this storm. A groundbreaking figure as 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 Pratt offers a behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous single term of Mayor Lightfoot and the chaos roiling the city and City Hall as Chicago fights to remain a global city. Ultimately, the mayors temper, inability to build alliances, and inexperience have deepened the citys vulnerabilities, leaving her isolated and throwing the citys future into question.
  • Författare: Gregory Royal Pratt
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781641605991
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-05-31
  • Förlag: Chicago Review Press