Chicago mayor Lightfoot mocks McDonald's CEO over his crime comments, says he needs to "educate himself"

Chicago's failed mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is presiding over a crime epidemic. Oh, sure, she'll claim that crime is down from last year, but it remains much higher than in 2019, Lightfoot's first year in office.

Last week, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski, decried crime in Chicago, and he said that it was inhibiting his ability to recruit talent to the corporation. After decades of being headquartered in suburban Oak Brook, Lightfoot's predecessor, convinced McDonald's to move its HQ back to Chicago, where is was from 1955 to 1971.

"Everywhere I go, I’m confronted by the same question," Kempczinski said in that speech. "‘What’s going on in Chicago?’ There is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis." He added, "The fact is that there are fewer large companies headquartered in Chicago this year than last year. There are fewer this month than last month."

Investment firm Citadel and Boeing have abandoned Chicago this year.

Last week the Wall Street Journal was told by a spokesperson that the mayor had no comment regarding Kempczinski's remarks, which led John Kass to opine, "No immediate comment Lori? What? Are you ill? That’s the Wall Street Journal calling, Madame Phallus Maximus. Business types read the Journal. For them to see Lightfoot in hiding invites negative judgement on her ability to handle the truth." 

The Phallus Maximus reference is in regards to a report that Lightfoot told an Italian-American group that favors the return of Chicago's Christopher Columbus statues that she has "the biggest dick in Chicago."

Mocking a business leader is a sure-fire plan for failure for any public official.

Lightfoot is up for reelection early next year.