<p>In a boost for morale, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-rolling-ahead-with-taxpayer-funded-gas-cards-to-combat-rising-gas-prices-inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot</a> (D) is shelling out $5,000 for the winner of a city-wide karaoke contest. The prize comes as crime is surging in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Windy City</a>.</p>
<p>If you have ever wanted to see <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lori-lightfoot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lightfoot</a> shake her tailfeather, now is your chance because the leftist mayor <a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/sings.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the monthlong contest via a series of short videos across social media platforms this week.</p>
<p>As the American Firebrand PAC put it, Lightfoot &#8220;is fiddling while Rome burns.&#8221;</p>
<p>Viewer discretion is advised:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/LoriLightfoot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LoriLightfoot</a> is fiddling while Rome burns. <a href="https://t.co/U0oBDD4fMO">pic.twitter.com/U0oBDD4fMO</a></p>
<p>&mdash; American Firebrand (@AmFirebrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmFirebrand/status/1577889189668048896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>According to the government-crafted website, <a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/sings.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ChicagoSingsKaraoke.org</a>, the contest is open to all Chicagoans aged 21 and above.</p>
<p>The &#8220;monthlong contest kicks off October 9 and will be an opportunity for amateur singers to showcase their musical chops in 18 neighborhood venues,&#8221; the website added. &#8220;After two rounds of a judged competition, the top performer will be crowned Chicago’s Karaoke Champion and receive $5,000.”</p>
<p>Lightfoot claims that karaoke is a &#8220;tradition&#8221; in the Windy City, &#8220;and every night of the week you can find remarkable performances in the unlikeliest of places.&#8221;</p>
<p>“And you haven’t lived until you’ve heard me cover some Chaka Khan,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/city-karaoke-contest-announcing-monthlong-100000111.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.</p>
<p>Of course, crime is also a tried-and-true Chicago classic.</p>
<p>Just a few weeks ago, McDonald&#8217;s CEO Chris Kempczinski blasted the city for its handling of illicit behavior.</p>
<p>&#8220;Crime is seeping into every corner of our city,&#8221; Kempczinski said during an event at the Economic Club of Chicago in September.</p>
<p>“Everywhere I go, I’m confronted by the same question these days — what’s going on in Chicago?&#8221; the hamburger giant&#8217;s Big Cheese <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/business/mcdonalds-ceo-chicago-crime/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. &#8220;While it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/15/mcdonalds-ceo-warns-of-soaring-crime-in-chicago/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, the city has seen an 18% increase in robberies, 28% more burglaries, a 65% surge in thefts, and 66% more car thefts than at this point in 2021. Murder is down year-over-year, but is still high at 479 murders as of September 15.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have violent crime that’s happening in our restaurants … we’re seeing homelessness issues in our restaurants. We’re having drug overdoses that are happening in our restaurants,” Kempcenski <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/business/mcdonalds-ceo-chicago-crime/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;So we see in our restaurants, every single day, what’s happening in society at large.&#8221;</p>
<p>Much like her singing skills, Lightfoot is quite comfortable standing behind a podium and making a clown out of herself.</p>
<p>Over the summer, she told a reporter that questions about the city&#8217;s violence were coming from &#8220;right-wing nuts.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a great beautiful global city and the right-wing characterization of our city as something other than what it is, I categorically reject,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lps3xPQ4LGk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> defiantly.</p>
<p>She also told the CEO of McDonald&#8217;s to &#8220;educate himself&#8221; in response to his comments.</p>
<p>On that note, perhaps Lightfoot can sing Elvis Presley&#8217;s 1969 hit song, &#8220;In the Ghetto,&#8221; during this year&#8217;s singing competition. It&#8217;s about a poor little baby born in Chicago who grows up in poverty and hunger, then as a teenager buys a gun, steals a car, and gets shot dead in the city&#8217;s streets, only for the cycle to continue as his mama cries.</p>
<p>Fifty years later and the more things change, the more they stay the same — but hey, break a leg at karaoke, Lightfoot!</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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