“That’s the mission. Saving lives,” Lightfoot said. “And when I think about, for example, the public health department where we’ve got epidemiologists and those are doctors who are trained in looking at patterns and viruses and other things that are relevant to this time who are crunching data, providing analysis and helping generate the information that is the foundation for our modeling and predictions about what the slope of this virus is, I want to ask the average Chicagoan: Would you like them to do their job or would you like them to be pulled off to do FOIA requests?”