King is the third City Council member to announce a challenge to Lightfoot.
South Side Ald. Sophia King will run for mayor of Chicago, marking the first woman to enter the crowded field of challengers to Lori Lightfoot.
She unsuccessfully led a push to rechristen downtown’s Balbo Drive in honor of Ida B. Wells, the African-American journalist who worked to expose lynchings and pushed for women’s voting rights. Italian-Americans objected to renaming Balbo, a pilot who flew from Rome to Chicago in 1933 for the Century of Progress Exposition and who was an ally of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. As a compromise, aldermen renamed Congress Parkway downtown for Wells.
As a member of City Council, King has had an up and down relationship with Lightfoot. In July 2020, after the Tribune reported that Lightfoot would be removing the Columbus statue from Grant Park, King texted the mayor, “Is it true the Columbus statue is coming down?” according to messages released by the mayor’s office.
In March 2021, Lightfoot called a proposal King made to restrict neighborhood museums, “highly problematic.”In September 2020, King emailed police leaders and City Hall officials to complain about crime going up in her ward and a shortage of police resources. King noted that officers from her ward were being deployed to the central business district downtown and raised concern about what it would mean for her residents.
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