Last night the four frontrunners for mayor gathered for their first major debate of the election. The candidates did not generate a lot of sparks. But there were quite a few questions – nearly three dozen of them. And they were posed by high schoolers. The answers - as is often the case in political debates - were less specific than the questions.

“Eight Forty-Eight” was joined by WBEZ’s political reporter Sam Hudzik for a debrief.