Chicago mayoral candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas ended the final weekend of the race by fanning out across the city, from a Dungeons and Dragons-themed bar in Avondale to churches around the South and West sides.
With election day Tuesday, the candidates held smaller-scale events as they focused primarily on mobilizing their bases and generating turnout in the bitterly contested race.Johnson’s weekend schedule included a stop in Humboldt Park before taking him down the north lakefront, where the mayoral candidate bit into ethnic delicacies from chutney-dipped samosas at a restaurant along Devon Avenue to an Asian carp burger in the backyard of an Uptown store.
They decided on “chaotic good,” a reference to the “alignment” within the game that represents disorganized but well-intentioned characters.Vallas spent the last Saturday before Election Day shoring up his base by also revisiting wards that. Along the way, he swayed his hips with Chinese Lion Dancers and nodded his head to the songs of the Romanian-American Chicago Children’s Choir.
“We’re not going to let Brandon Johnson take our police officers out of our neighborhoods,” she said. Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez introduced Vallas a “true-blue Democrat!”“I’m ready,” Vallas yelled back, as residents shouted, “Vamos, Paul Vallas!”At the Chinatown stop, Vallas told the audience, “This election is maybe the most important election in a generation. And it’s going to be decided by who comes out to vote.
Johnson’s water bills also came up in church the next day. Both candidates made the rounds at South Side houses of worship, where congregants were observing Palm Sunday. The comment reflected the double-edged sword of Vallas’ attack: While some people may criticize Johnson for having unpaid bills, others find the circumstance familiar in a city where thousands of residents are struggling to get by.Martin Luther King III, center, greets faith and labor leaders following a press conference endorsing mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson, second from left, on Friday.
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