PEORIA, Ill. — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot paid a visit to Peoria Wednesday.
The mayor was the keynote speaker for the Women in Leadership luncheon at Bradley University.
In front of a packed banquet room, Lightfoot spoke highly of the accomplishments of Lydia Moss Bradley, who founded the university in 1896.
Lightfoot says she had another motive to visit Peoria. “There are a lot of things that are happening in Peoria that mirror what is going on in Chicago. It is about building relationships.”
The mayor recently made headlines after she fired the city’s top cop, Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Lightfoot suggested it was Johnson’s personal failures when he was found asleep behind the wheel of his car on Oct. 17 and for what he told investigators that played into the decision to end his employment.
