“I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.” Lori Lightfoot is the first black woman, and the first openly gay person, to become Chicago’s mayor.
It’s game time.” A 56-year-old former federal prosecutor who’s never held elected office - “We must break from the past.” - has made history in Chicago. Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal prosecutor who has never held elected office, made history in Chicago.
