Also on the wait-and-see list: whether the roughly two-week teachers strike that put Lightfoot on the opposite side of the table from the union hurts her the way the 2012 CTU strike did predecessor Mayor Rahm Emanuel. And we’ll all be keeping an eye on whether she can flex some muscle in the General Assembly next year. This year she came up empty-handed after trying to win legislative approval on two measures that would have gone a long way toward mopping up city government’s sea of red ink: a graduated real estate transfer tax and tax changes to make a Chicago casino more attractive to prospective investors.