CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, now working in violence prevention in Chicago, appears to be steadily ramping up a run for mayor of Chicago.
Arne Duncan said he’s being urged to run by business leaders who are worried about the city’s future, and he’s gone from “not interested” three months ago to “I will absolutely look at this as we go forward.”
Duncan told the Sun Times, “If I think I can make a bigger difference in another seat, I’ll absolutely look at that...I’m not running for anything right now. But I am deeply concerned about where we are as a city…"
He said, the city is “in a really tough spot," and people are “probably more concerned now than at any time” he can remember.
Duncan has appeared before the City Club of Chicago twice in the past 18 months, speaking about a violence prevention plan that would be bankrolled by shrinking the police department.
Mayor Lightfoot said, “defunding police, disgracing men and women of this department by letting it shrink by attrition in the middle of a violent crime surge — that’s what I would call insanity. It’s a stupid idea.”
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