Johnson and Vallas will advance to a runoff election in April after neither candidate was able to secure over 50 percent of the vote to win outright Tuesday.
after she ranked third behind Vallas and Johnson with 90 percent of the vote counted. Johnson, the Cook County commissioner, and Vallas, former public schools chief for Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans, will face off in an April runoff election after no candidate was able to secure over 50 percent of the vote to win outright.
Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, left, speaks at a press conference outside City Hall on January 24, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. Fellow Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas, right, is pictured at his campaign headquarters on February 3, 2023. The Democrats are headed for a runoff election in April.Despite sharing the same political party, Johnson and Vallas have stark differences on public safety and policing—one of Chicagoans'this election cycle.
Vallas addressed that pledge at his victory party for supporters on Tuesday."We will have a safe Chicago. We will make Chicago the safest city in America," he said. Vallas also won the endorsement of the conservative Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago, whose leader, John Catanzara,
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