Lightfoot dumps communications chief just shy of 100 days

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's communications director Marielle Sainvilus resigned Thursday, two weeks shy of the 100-day mark. Chicagomaroon.com

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel dumped his first communications director seven months into his administration. Mayor Lori Lightfoot has now done the same in three months.

Marielle Sainvilus abruptly resigned Thursday - nearly two weeks shy of the 100-day mark - amid concern that the new administration was slow to respond to media inquiries and fell short when it came to handling controversies.

Sainvilus is the former director of public affairs for the University of Chicago who joined Lightfoot's transition team in mid-April, after Lightfoot's landslide victory and just over a month before her inauguration.

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