Perspective: Chicago’s mayoral election feels like 1983 all over again — but it isn’t
While Chicago’s mayoral race is officially nonpartisan, the results of last week’s mayoral election have resulted in a runoff that will take place on April 4 featuring two candidates who, though both registered Democrats, differ starkly along racial, ideological and generational lines.
To win, Washington withstood remarkably racist rhetoric by his opponents, Democratic and Republican, and a fierce backlash by normally reliable Democratic White ethnic voters who turned out in droves to try to deny a Black man the mayor’s seat “before it’s too late.
For instance, Washington struggled to change the institutions that most affected the lives of working-class, predominantly Black and Latino Chicagoans. Neither the Chicago Police Department nor the Chicago Housing Authority, even with Black leadership, improved much during his tenure.
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