Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she did not care where she was listed on the ballot, since any advantage would be most pronounced for little-known candidates.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot made her bid to become the first woman to be re-elected Chicago mayor official Monday morning, telling reporters she had gathered more than 40,000 signatures from Chicago voters to qualify for the Feb. 28 ballot.
Lightfoot’s final stated signature tally places her firmly in the middle of the pack, an unusual position for an incumbent mayor running for re-election. In 2019, Lightfoot came from behind to stun Chicago’s political establishment by defeating a dozen candidates in the first round of voting, including former U.S. Commerce Secretary Bill Daley, the son and brother of Chicago’s longest serving mayors, and then winning every ward in the second round of voting to defeat Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
To win a second term as mayor, Lightfoot will have to fight serious headwinds caused by the surge of crime in Chicago that began as the pandemic swept the city and shut down schools and businesses, triggering a financial meltdown. “So those are the things that we are going to continue to focus on and staying the course by making sure that we continue to deliver, Lightfoot said.
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