Haircuts during Covid were expenive, remember? Lightfoot being sued for unpaid charges.
Posted by osklister on January 13, 2026, 16:01:38
Ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sued by bank over $11K in unpaid credit card bills — despite hefty salary
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is apparently as bad at managing her finances as she was the Windy City’s — she’s been hit with a lawsuit for being over $11,000 in arrears on her credit card.
Lightfoot, 63, who in 2023 became the first Chicago mayor not re-elected in 40 years, was served in October by JPMorgan Chase Bank at her $900,000 home for failing to pay around $11,078 in credit card bills, according to a legal complaint viewed by the Chicago Tribune.
According to the complaint, Lightfoot’s last payment on the card was in August for $5,000, and she didn’t object to the final statement before the bank declared the debt a charge-off in March.
Revelations of the debt-riddled Democrat’s struggles to pay her bills on time come in spite of earning a staggering gross adjusted income of $971,626 between 2014 and 2017 while a partner at law firm Mayer Brown, and a generous $216,000 per annum as mayor of Chicago from 2019 to 2023, according to the outlet.
The Tribune also noted that in 2021, Lightfoot reported $402,414 in adjusted gross income, but that same year took $210,000 in early distributions from her retirement savings to boost her mayoral salary.
Since her disastrous tenure as mayor, Lightfoot has held several visiting professor roles, including at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and Harvard University.
Last March, Lightfoot joined consulting firm Charles River Associates as a senior consultant to its forensic services practice.
She’s also hopped on the anti-ICE bandwagon, launching the “ICE Accountability Project,” an online repository for sharing and documenting Chicagoland residents’ encounters with agents since the start of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration crackdown last September.
The pet project is funded by private donors whom she has refused to disclose, and Lightfoot said the site is hosted on non-US servers to avoid censorship, according to Block Club Chicago.
Under Lightfoot’s leadership, Chicago saw skyrocketing crime and the decimation of its posh “Miracle Mile” shopping district, which reached a 30% vacancy rate after a string of looting incidents.
She also caught heat for blasting the “overwhelming whiteness” of Chicago’s media, and announced in 2021 she’d only be granting one-on-one interviews with minority journalists.
Docs: Man records his deadly stabbing of sleeping passenger on CTA Blue Line
A man pulled out his cell phone and then stabbed a sleeping man to death on a CTA Blue Line train early Saturday morning while recording, prosecutors allege.
Demetrius Thurman, 40, was ordered detained by a judge Tuesday during a hearing on a first-degree murder charge.
Police responded to the Clark and Lake station, located in the 100 block of West Lake, just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday on the report of a stabbing.
The victim, Dominique Pollion, was sleeping on the train for about an hour and had no interactions with Thurman prior to the incident, court documents state.
At around 2:17 a.m., Thurman entered the train and walked up behind Pollion holding his phone in the right hand and a knife in his left hand, prosecutors allege.
He began recording and allegedly stabbed Pollion once in the chest and once in the abdomen.
Detectives recovered the video and surveillance footage of the incident.
Pollion screamed, backed away down the aisle and then collapsed. Thurman was accused of fleeing between train cars and then recording the scene through the window once the train stopped at Clark and Lake.
He allegedly told security officers “somebody got his ass” before leaving the CTA station.
Security officers initially did not know Pollion was stabbed due to multiple layers of clothing. Paramedics located the stab wounds and he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
on January 13, 2026, 16:01:38