Brandon Johnson joined commuters during the morning rush, greeting them no longer as a candidate but as mayor-elect of the nation’s third-largest city. “What’s required in this moment is real collaboration,” he said.
Johnson, 47, a Cook County commissioner and former public school teacher, was “jubilant” the morning after his victory in Tuesday’s runoff over Paul Vallas, 69, a former CEO of the city’s public schools.
“The police thing was my biggest issue. I was with Vallas until all that ‘blood in the streets’ stuff,” said the 67-year-old from the city’s West Side. It was a reference to the police union president predicting there would be “blood in the streets” if Johnson became mayor, and it was the kind of divisive talk that Bryant said turned him toward Johnson’s message of unity and working together. “I wanted to be on that side,” he said.
A former teacher and union member, Johnson will come to the bargaining table with the teachers union next summer with the strongest relationship of any mayor before him. But as a former CTU member, he has already faced scrutiny over his independence from a group that helped make his victory possible and expectations from residents to avoid another teacher strike.
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