Lightfoot’s Handpicked Floor Leader Ald. Villegas Steps Down

Lightfoot’s Handpicked Floor Leader Ald. Villegas Steps Down
Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times / Associated Press
Lightfoot’s Handpicked Floor Leader Ald. Villegas Steps Down
Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times / Associated Press

Lightfoot’s Handpicked Floor Leader Ald. Villegas Steps Down

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Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th Ward, served Mayor Lightfoot in City Council for 18 months. He’s replaced by Ald. Michelle Harris, 8th Ward.

Reset gets the scoop on why Villegas stepped down and what the move means for the Lightfoot administration and City Council going forward.

GUESTS: Heather Cherone, WTTW politics reporter 
Jaime Dominguez, professor of political science at Northwestern University