{"id":1829036,"date":"2023-01-30T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829036"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:54:37","slug":"lori-lightfoot-dances-blissfully-in-chicago-as-crime-soars-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lori-lightfoot-dances-blissfully-in-chicago-as-crime-soars-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Lightfoot Dances Blissfully in Chicago as Crime Soars 61%"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flori-lightfoot-dances-blissfully-in-chicago-as-crime-soars-61%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Lori-Lightfoot-Blasted-for-blissfully-DANCING-in-streets-of-Chicago-as-Crimes-Soar-61.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Chicago Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/tag\/lori-lightfoot\/\">Lori Lightfoot<\/a> He was filmed in the streets dancing as violent crime continued to rise in the city. This caused many flagship stores to flee. \u2018Magnificent Mile\u2019 The shopping district is now one-third empty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot, who faces an uphill Democratic primary battle with several opponents, was seen dancing at the city\u2019s Lunar New Year parade on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user replied to the video by saying: \u201cSince [Lightfoot] \u2018s term began, Chicago has suffered 2,278 homicides and over 9,000 shot. Since January 1, the city has endured 41 homicides and 194 shot. Yet here Lightfoot is blissfully dancing and asking voters to return her to office. Lightfoot is detached from reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagosmayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chicagosmayor<\/a>&#8216;s term began, Chicago has suffered 2,278 homicides and over 9,000 shot.<\/p>\n<p>Since January 1, the city has endured 41 homicides and 194 shot.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here Lightfoot is blissfully dancing and asking voters to return her to office.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot is detached from reality. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uEbL5R9s1m\">pic.twitter.com\/uEbL5R9s1m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChicagoContrar1\/status\/1619719840171962372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As crimes continue to hit unprecedented levels, with <a href=\"https:\/\/home.chicagopolice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_PDFsam_CompStat-Public-2023-Week-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">61 percent<\/a> in the first four weeks of 2023 from the same period last year, Lightfoot has overseen vacancy rates of almost 30 percent as flagship stores fled the city.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known brands like Macy\u2019s, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Gap, Uniqlo, and Timberland have all left Chicago under Lightfoot.<\/p>\n<p>As The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/mayor-lightfoot-tells-mcdonalds-ceo-to-educate-himself-after-he-warns-of-rising-crime\/\"> Daily Fetched <\/a>reported last year, Lightfoot scolded McDonald\u2019s CEO Chris Kempczinski after he warned about the rising crime in the city, telling him he needs to \u201ceducate himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what would have been helpful is for the McDonald\u2019s CEO to educate himself before he spoke,\u201d the Chicago Democrat said.<\/p>\n<p>Kempczinski said that the city\u2019s crime is affecting his company\u2019s ability to recruit top talent, and employees have been hesitant to return to work.<\/p>\n<p>He was right. Many businesses have been driven away by soaring crime and violence, and now the vacancy rate on the once tony-shopping strip rising 10-fold between 2016 \u2013 when it sat at just 3.6 percent, to the current 30.1 percent vacancy rate, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist recorded a video showing the tragically empty shopping district in Chicago, which would have been usually filled with people.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/former-nfl-player-calls-chicago-mayor-lightfoots-crime-ad-witchcraft-demonic\/\">Former NFL Player Calls Chicago Mayor Lightfoot\u2019s Crime Ad \u2018Witchcraft, Demonic\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot He was filmed in the streets dancing as violent crime continued to rise in the city. This caused many flagship stores to flee. \u2018Magnificent Mile\u2019 The shopping district is now one-third empty. Lightfoot, who faces an uphill Democratic primary battle with several opponents, was seen dancing at the city\u2019s Lunar New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1829039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[16989,16988,4387,7204,14277,15699,16495,8615],"class_list":["post-1829036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-16989","tag-blissfully","tag-chicago","tag-crime","tag-dances","tag-lightfoot","tag-lori","tag-soars"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}