No one has a clear opening to win the Chicago mayor’s race next week — not even the person who won the job just four years ago.
CHICAGO — No one has a clear opening to win the Chicago mayor’s race this week — not even the person who won the job just four years ago.
“We have been through hell and back in the last four years. No one could have anticipated that we were going to go through a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic,” Lightfoot said. “Am I completely understanding that people are feeling a sense of disquiet and concern? I absolutely get it. How could we not? But we need to keep forging ahead together.”
But this is Chicago, so race is another key factor. And it’s a complex one for Lightfoot, whose base among Black voters — particularly Black women — may splinter unevenly among the five other Black candidates. Vallas is white, and García is Latino. All the candidates declared themselves as Democrats.
“This isn’t the race anyone expected,” said Corbett, noting how García was considered a frontrunner a few months ago. García has a long history of helping build a bench of Latino candidates in Illinois. And Johnson is backed by the Chicago Teachers Union, both in endorsements and financially. He also works for the union.
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