Things had been tense on the Wentworth Police District Council for a while by the time Ephraim Lee walked out of the group’s December meeting. He apologized to the room for the council’s dysfunction and said: “If you want to see this (unprofessionalism), then you can just go down to City Hall.” Then he left. Lee had only served on the brand-new civilian council for the 2nd Police District for .
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the three-person committee advising her will have to work fast to narrow down the applicant pool and nominate a replacement for the disgraced grandson and nephew of Chicago Mayors Richard J. Daley and Richard M. Daley who was convicted Feb. 14 on seven counts of lying to federal bank regulators and filing false tax returns.