Column: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to seize property from gang members is great if you like terrible ideas

Source Chicago Tribune
Original Load Date Jan. 21, 2022, 2:01 p.m.
Last Updated Jan. 21, 2022, 2:01 p.m.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to fix Chicago’s violence crisis seems to involve trotting out ideas that didn’t work before and won’t work now. It’s part of a long-standing city tradition of thinking inside the box, then doing the same thing twice — or three or four or five times — and expecting a diff...