A top mayoral aide said Johnson’s signature was unwittingly attached to a document authorizing the payment, which covered a contract extension that was approved by Lori Lightfoot.
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The outgoing Chicago mayor chided the media reporting “what four-letter word the mean, can’t-get-along-with-anyone mayor allegedly said.” But she told the crowd, “The four-letter word that propelled me forward every single day … was spelled H-O-P-E.”
Ticketing is up 25.7% through the first six months of 2022 from 853,906 tickets through June 30 of last year to 1,073,919 tickets during the same period this year.
Booting, however, is headed in the opposite direction. It’s down 12.6% from 27,656 of the wheel-locking devices applied through June 30 of 2021 to just 24,158 vehicles booted during the same period this year.