
Chicago Election Day 2023: Live Updates
Follow our all-day coverage of Chicago Election Day 2023, including voter reactions, scenes from the polls and news updates.
Follow our all-day coverage of Chicago Election Day 2023, including voter reactions, scenes from the polls and news updates.
Incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers. The top two vote-getters will go to a runoff election if nobody wins more than 50%.
The discourse that once ran through Black Chicago for decades about unity around a Black consensus candidate has waned.
Lightfoot’s campaign says again that they halted the recruitment effort to CPS and City Colleges students.
The CTA has gotten the most diss this mayoral election season. But making biking and walking in the city safer tops many Chicagoans to-do lists too.
In The People’s Agenda survey from WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times, a question about the Chicago Public Schools budget required explaining.
Many questions asked in the WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times People’s Agenda survey were about pocket-book issues facing Chicagoans, such as rising property taxes.
This election season, we asked Chicagoans to contribute to the People’s Agenda with questions and comments they want the next mayor to address. Here’s one on the money spent to fight Chicago crime.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot questions Brandon Johnson’s commitment to funding Chicago police. Activist Ja’Mal Green accuses Johnson of ‘being a fraud.’
The contribution supporting the incumbent mayor from a contractor exploited a loophole in rules designed to end the perception of pay-to-play politics.