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Mayor Lightfoot Shows Her White Sox Fandom in Video Encouraging Social Distancing

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a White Sox fan.

This information was revealed in a clever video her office released on Twitter Monday evening, encouraging residents to "stay at home, save lives."

Lightfoot plays different characters in the video, like "The Analyst," where she discusses data, "The Baller," where she spends time in a kitchen making a basket in a hoop on a refrigerator, "The Voice of Reason," where she convinces people on the phone to stay home, and more. But the truth of her sports fandom is revealed at the two-minute mark, when Lightfoot, as "The Fan," is wearing a White Sox jersey on a couch watching a game and declares, "Tell you what, if my White Sox win, you gotta stay home.