• FEB 18, 2020
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    Lightfoot blasts Trump’s commutation of Blagojevich: it ‘sends entirely the wrong message’

    Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers questions from reporters. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
    Mayor Lori Lightfoot Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the 14-year prison sentence of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of trying to sell President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat as well as extorting the CEO of a Chicago’s children’s hospital and owners of racetrack.

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