Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks about crime and violence on Thursday, July 15, 2021. (WTTW News through Mayor’s Office environment)

Mayor Lori Lightfoot acknowledged Thursday that the surge in shootings and murders concentrated on Chicago’s South and West sides has compelled her to reset her agenda as mayor, and she vowed to believe “creatively” about how to stem the bloodshed.

“Gun violence is the selection just one issue plaguing the town in this moment,” Lightfoot explained, adding that it is the initial challenge she confronts when she wakes up in the early morning, the very last she considers at night time and the a single that wakes her up in the middle of the night. “I realize that persons are fearful.”

Talking just just before ceremonially breaking ground on a new headquarters for the Chicago Park District, Lightfoot said far too many inhabitants of the South and West sides “are just plain scared” that they will be shot and killed.

“This reality it what pains me, personally, the most,” Lightfoot claimed. “We have professional far too substantially bloodshed in this metropolis. Too quite a few funerals, and far too considerably trauma.”

Until the violence is controlled in Chicago, “nothing else matters,” said Lightfoot, who traveled to San Francisco very last week to inspire tech businesses to open up new places of work in Chicago.

Lightfoot once more insisted that crime is down this summer as opposed to summer time 2020, when the metropolis seasoned a substantial increase in crime and violence