Chicago Mayoral Candidate Wants to Shake Up City Work Comp Program

Chicago's unusually opaque $100-million-per-year workers' compensation system would be in for a shake-up, should outsider mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot succeed in knocking off incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel this fall. Lightfoot, a former U.S. attorney who resigned this week as president of the Chicago Police Board in anticipation of kicking off her run today, has already declared that she would not re-appoint Ward 14 Alderman Edward Burke if elected. Burke is the powerful chairman of the City Council Committee on Finance, which oversees the Bureau of Workmen’s Compensation...