Mayor Lori Lightfoot dines with Oprah

It’s got to be one of the better perks of the job.

Last week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot had dinner with media titan Oprah Winfrey.

So how was it?

“It was great,” Lightfoot not surprisingly said. “She’s a remarkable person.”

Lightfoot and her wife, Chicago first lady Amy Eshleman, joined the media mogul last Thursday for dinner during a trip Lightfoot took to California to raise money for former Sen. Barbara Boxer’s PAC and look for donors of her own among California’s upscale LGBT community. She apparently added dinner with Oprah to her wish list.

“Our folks had reached out, and she was very generous in inviting my wife and I to dine with her at her house,” Lightfoot said while speaking at an unrelated event back in Chicago Tuesday.

During the dinner, the trio talked about the issues facing Chicagoans. Lightfoot was impressed with how much Oprah knew about local news, calling Winfrey a “tremendous person” who was clearly “up to date” on issues in Chicago.

Winfrey hosted her Emmy award-winning “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago from 1986 to 2011.

Oprah posted a photo with Lightfoot and Eshleman on her Instagram Monday night captioned, “Look who came for dinner,” and said that the meeting was her first with Lightfoot.

By noon Tuesday, Oprah’s Instagram post already had 115k likes and 946 comments. One commenter asked Oprah if she missed Chicago, to which she replied that her longtime partner Stedman Graham still has an office there.

A welcome wagon of sorts has assembled to greet Lightfoot as she settles into office. Shortly after her historic election as Chicago’s first African American woman and first openly gay mayor, Lightfoot has taken calls from politicians including former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump.

Lightfoot and her wife had dinner with Gov. J.B. Pritzker just days after her April victory.

Winfrey permanently closed her Harpo Studios in the West Loop in 2015, after moving her productions to a studio in West Hollywood, California.

“I was grateful for the opportunity to meet with her,” Lightfoot said.