Candidates Willie Wilson also faces a claim by challenger Ja'Mal Green that Wilson's main residence is in the suburbs.
Ja’Mal Green, left, drops off his nominating petitions for mayor of Chicago, as filing for the position begins on Nov. 21, 2022, at the Election Board Supersite in Chicago.
But incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot, though facing a large field seeking to unseat her, is not among those who will be faced with defending petitions. She boasted of having upwards of 40,000 signatures, more than three times the required number.
In a phone call Wednesday evening, Wilson denied Green’s allegations — as well as his own involvement in the challenge of Green’s signatures, saying: “If I did have something to do with it, I would admit to it.” Wilson added that he “absolutely” stands by the integrity of his 61,000-plus signatures and brushed off the accusation that he doesn’t live in his downtown Chicago address as his main residence.People are “entitled to own more than one home,” Wilson said. “I have two homes. I live in downtown Chicago.”As for his own challenge to Wilson, Green said: “This is not a personal dispute; it’s more of the fact to show the city of Chicago that we have a candidate that is willing to commit fraud.
In the 2019 mayoral election, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle — who ultimately lost to Lightfoot in a runoff — succeeded in getting former Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown kicked off the ballot. That year, Green also withdrew while facing a stiff challenge from Wilson.
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