'Gov, this is petty': Chicago mayor's texts with Pritzker, state leaders show tension

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had a funny response when former Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown suggested Lightfoot run for governor someday.

“You must not like me if you want to send me to Springfield,” Lightfoot said in a text, obtained by the Tribune in response to a series of open records requests.

Lightfoot isn’t the first mayor of Chicago who isn’t a big fan of the state’s capital, but dealing with the Illinois legislature and governor is a key part of the job that has at times been a challenge for the mayor.

The Tribune obtained more than 2½ years of Lightfoot’s text messages with aldermen and other high-ranking political leaders through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests — which members of her staff failed to comply with until the state attorney general admonished them and the Tribune threatened a lawsuit.

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(Carbondale Southern Illinoisan)