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Lightfoot, business groups promise to protect undocumented immigrants

POSTED 12:54 PM, JULY 10, 2019, BY JULIAN CREWS, UPDATED AT 05:19PM, JULY 10, 2019














CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago business groups are taking steps to protect undocumented immigrants in the city.
They said Chicago will not help federal agents track them down.
“It’s not about being confrontational with the Trump administration, but it’s 100% about being supportive of our immigrant community,” Lightfoot said at a Wednesday morning news conference.
Chicago, with its status as a Sanctuary City, has drawn criticism from President Donald Trump and his Justice Department.
But the mayor said her focus is the children.
“A lot of these issues regarding immigration and the fear and uncertainty about what’s happening is falling disproportionately and harshly on our children," Lightfoot said.
“What this is doing is scaring restauranteurs and scaring team members," Sam Toia of the Illinois Restaurant Association said.
Toia and other prominent business and health leaders announced their unwavering support for Chicago’s immigrant communities.
Critics of the federal crackdown on undocumented immigrants have called the plan heavy-handed and poorly executed.

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Who Is Lori Lightfoot's Wife? New Details On Amy Eshleman

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Entertainment And NewsApril 4, 2019

Lightfoot made history.
On April 2, Lori Lightfoot won her race for the Mayor of Chicago. Not only is she the first black female mayor, but she’s also the first openly gay mayor in the city’s history. Before winning the election, she worked in a private legal practice, and was President of the Chicago Police Board and chair of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force.
She announced her candidacy for Mayor of Chicago in May 2018, and just one year later, she will be sworn into office in May 2019. She won more than 73 percent of the overall vote in the runoff, and won every ward in the city.
In her acceptance speech, Lightfoot had a positive outlook for the future, saying, “Out there tonight a lot of little girls and boys are watching. They’re watching us. And they’re seeing the beginning of something, well... a little different. They’re seeing a city reborn, a city where it doesn’t matter what color you are, where it sure doesn’t matter how tall you are, where it doesn’t matter who you love, just as long as you love with all your heart...
In the Chicago we will build together, we will celebrate our differences. We will embrace our uniqueness. And we will make certain that we all have every opportunity to succeed. Every child out there should know this: Each of you, one day, can be the Mayor of Chicago.”
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But throughout her campaign, there was one person who stood by her: her wife. Who is Lori Lightfoot's wife? Here are six things to know about Amy Eshleman, who will become Chicago’s first lady when Lightfoot is sworn in.

1. She’s from Illinois.

Eshleman is from Sterling, IL, but has lived in Chicago since the early 90s. In high school, she played on the basketball and tennis teams; her school’s 1977 girls basketball team became the first girls basketball state champions in the state. She was also a member of the National Honor Society.
2. She holds multiple degrees.

After graduating high school, she attended Miami University in Ohio. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the college.

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3. She worked for the Chicago Public Library for almost 20 years.

From 1994 to 2012, Eshleman worked as a Chicago Public Library assistant commissioner. She helped develop YOUmedia, a digital media center for teens; the program has been successful since its inception in 2009 and spread to the national level, where President Obama cited the center as innovative.
Eshleman also helped expand similar programs nationally while in her role as “leader for education” at the Urban Libraries Council. Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa credit YOUMedia with helping to launch their music careers.
4. They’ve been together for a long time.

Eshleman and Lightfoot apparently met through Mary Dempsey, the Chicago Public Library Commissioner; Eshleman was Dempsey’s assistant commissioner. The couple has been together for 16 years, and got married the day same-sex marriage was legalized in Illinois.
According to Eshleman, the couple waited to get married and were surrounded with the anxiety of coming out: “You don't know what your life is going to be like. You want certain things for yourself, and falling in love and having a family and doing all those things felt really important to us. To be able to be married on that day felt really big.”
5. They have a daughter.

The couple have an 11-year-old daughter, Vivian. The family lives in Logan Square.
6. Their openness had a major impact on the campaign.

Their support for the LGBT community led to people to back the candidate. Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, “a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to LGBTQ rights,” said the support “was a major, major piece. Thirty to 35 years ago, our bars were still being raided. Now we're represented in City Hall by the mayor. That’s a pretty profound switch.”
Eshleman and Lightfoot also walked in June 2018’s Chicago Pride Parade, and according to Eshleman, the experience was “one of the most profound and emotional and humbling” moments, showing that the people of Chicago are “open and welcoming and diverse and loving and nonjudgmental.”