Spotlight Politics: Officials Flirt with Pandemic Pullback


Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she will do everything in her power to reverse the uptick in COVID-19 cases. “We are dangerously close to going back to a dangerous state of conditions,” she said Wednesday.

Just hours later, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a new COVID-19 mitigation plan to combat a resurgence of the virus. “This virus has not gone away. It’s still infecting people and will likely continue to do so for months,” Pritzker said Wednesday.

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Meanwhile, the man who is second-in-command at the Chicago Police Department is stepping down, and President Donald Trump took aim — again — at Chicago violence. 

Amanda Vinicky, Paris Schutz and Heather Cherone discuss those stories and more in this week’s roundtable.

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