• NOV 21, 2019
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    Lightfoot says she’s done negotiating over the 2020 budget as progressive groups say she has broken her campaign promises

    “The budget is the budget is the budget,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot told reporters. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
    After aldermen sped through a series of votes on Wednesday designed to position the 2020 budget for final approval Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she was done negotiating over the $11.65 budget spending plan.

    “The budget is the budget is the budget,” Lightfoot told reporters after a City Council meeting that clocked in at a brisk 57 minutes.

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