Lori Lightfoot will be a one-term mayor after failing to advance to Chicago's mayoral runoff election. She is the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve as Chicago's mayor. From WBEZ:
Former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson advanced to an April runoff Tuesday in the nine-way Chicago mayoral contest, bringing to a close the historic and tumultuous reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
The Associated Press called it for Vallas less than an hour after polls closed and for Johnson about an hour after that. Buoyed by an aggressive television advertising campaign, Vallas zeroed in on her failure to curb violent attacks throughout the city, mining an issue that came to define her four years on City Hall’s 5th floor as much as her response to the pandemic and the stabilization of city finances.
“I live up north in a bungalow district with relatively low crime and it’s getting closer to home every single day,” Keith Forshaw, age 49, said. “Paul has a plan with the police. I like his plan. I think he can execute on it. “ At Johnson’s West Side party, the crowd included David Hernandez, a high school computer science teacher in Little Village and a Chicago Teachers Union delegate.
For Lightfoot, the first openly gay and Black female mayor in city history, suffering the same humiliation at the polls that Byrne did a generation ago may be a particularly stinging result, but it wasn’t entirely surprising.
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