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Chicago’s mayor hasn’t gotten a pay raise since 2006. Mayors Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot have all been paid $216,210 a year.
Not for long, if Lightfoot gets her way.
The catch-all “management ordinance” introduced at Wednesday’s City Council meeting and tied to Lightfoot’s $16.4 billion budget proposes tying the mayor’s future salary to the rate of inflation or 5%, whichever is less.
The inflationary trigger is similar to one the mayor has imposed on annual property tax increases — though she’s forfeiting this year’s increase to give inflation-squeezed Chicagoans a pre-election reprieve.