Brandon Johnson has been inaugurated as Chicago’s 57th mayor.
Brandon Johnson hugs Mayor Lori Lightfoot before he is sworn in as Chicago's 57th mayor on May 15, 2023, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Johnson took the oath of office Monday morning, administered by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans, during a ceremony commemorating the former county commissioner and longtime labor organizer’s once-improbable rise to become the most progressive leader of the nation’s third-largest city in decades.
After congratulating City Council members on their inauguration, Johnson turned to applaud the aldermen sitting on stage. The move was a clear contrast with his predecessor Lori Lightfoot’s inaugural address, where she spoke of the need for City Council to root out corruption then turned to force them to stand and applaud, a move that tainted her relationship with aldermen.
Leaders from religious organizations spanning the Black church where Barack Obama attended to a Jewish rabbi and Muslim imam also prayed over the Johnson family. Johnson lives in Austin, a West Side neighborhood regarded as one of the country’s most violent, and often evokes the ubiquitious sound of gunshots on his block when explaining the personal stake he has in raising three children without the threat of gun violence.
The mayoral race saw Johnson and runoff opponent Paul Vallas frequently trade sharp barbs as their clashing ideologies battled for control of City Hall.Johnson made a remarkable rise from polling in the single digits during the early months of his mayoral bid to knocking out Lightfoot in the initial round of voting — the first time a sitting Chicago mayor had lost reelection since Harold Washington beat Jane Byrne to become the city’s first Black mayor in 1983.
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