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Today, Explained

City Limits: Blame the mayor

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Chicagoans feel unsafe, and many blame Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The two Democrats on the ballot to replace her have starkly different views on what the city should do next. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith and Mariah Woelfel explain. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Help keep this show and all of Vox's journalism free by making a gift to Vox today: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Chicago, Alexa, New Mayor today.

0:03.0

The city decided they were done with Lori Lightfoot and they're now looking at two polar

0:08.9

opposite replacements and these two candidates have got two polar opposite strategies for

0:15.0

dealing with crime which is the biggest issue at play in this race.

0:20.0

Protecting you has to be the mayor's top priority and on my watch it will be.

0:25.6

I plan, invest in our neighborhoods by making wealthy corporations pay their fair share.

0:31.5

Whatever happens Chicago's choice to reject its current mayor says a lot about how big

0:37.0

city politics around crime is changing.

0:39.9

I think the big city mayors or candidates to be big city mayors and Democrat cities which

0:44.2

is almost all big cities are not going to be able to sort of tow the line or go middle

0:48.8

of the road on police reform and crime the way that Mayor Lightfoot has done and the way

0:54.0

that you did to get herself elected in the first place.

0:56.0

That's coming up on today's explained.

1:00.6

Some succession fans got really angry after a big plot development in season 4 episode

1:06.0

3 because articles about the episode spoiled it before they could watch.

1:11.6

But what if that's the wrong way to look at it?

1:13.8

Think about the word spoil itself.

1:17.4

Are you actually now ingesting something that will harm you?

1:22.6

Probably not.

1:23.6

Are you probably care way too much about spoilers?

1:27.6

This week on Intuit, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.

1:33.9

Today explained Sean Rombus from here with Patrick Smith from WBEZ in Chicago and Patrick

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