Today is Election Day in Chicago’s hotly contested mayoral race
Incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers. The top two vote-getters will go to a runoff election if nobody wins more than 50%.
Incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers. The top two vote-getters will go to a runoff election if nobody wins more than 50%.
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.
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.
Lightfoot trails in potential runoffs with García or Vallas, spelling trouble for her reelection bid, a WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times/NBC5/Telemundo Chicago poll shows.
While most of the candidates have pledged to reopen mental health clinics, they’re saying less about other pressing health care issues.
The decision marks an about-face from his stand in 2019, when he returned a donation from Deborah Quazzo.
García has been criticized for accepting donations from a now-federally charged former crypto magnate, but a spokesperson says the congressman stepped down for other reasons.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her challengers have focused on how to reduce crime as a way to bolster the city’s economy.
As García distances himself from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who has been federally charged, more connections to Bankman-Fried’s family surfaced.