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Spotlight Politics: Lightfoot Prepares to Take Over

Clip: 5/15/2019 | 9m 25sVideo has Closed Captions

Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot and some alderman appear to be on the verge of a showdown.

Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot and some Chicago alderman are already in a stare down over aldermanic power. Our politics team tackles that story and other headlines in our weekly roundtable.

05/15/2019 | Rating NR

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