Chicago aldermen grilled Mayor Lori Lightfoot on her response to riots rocking the city nearly a week after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of police, according to a recently-obtained recording of a conference call detailing the angst and sorrow of officials desperate to keep their city from unraveling.
“What are we going to have left in our community?” alderman Michelle Harris (8th Ward) asked rhetorically, according to a tape obtained by WTTW News of a conference call among Chicago’s 50 aldermen and the mayor.
