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What’s appearing increasingly possible, however, is that Lightfoot If a candidate fails to win a majority in Chicago’s municipal election, the top two vote-getters face off against each other in a second round of voting in April. But with less than two weeks to the Feb. 28 election, Lightfoot — a firecracker Democrat who quickly brandished a national All that adds up to the stunning prospect that a sitting big-city mayor could be eliminated from re-election contention in the first round of voting. "It's looking harder and harder for her," one of her competitors, Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, D-Ill., said in an interview. "It's a hell of a front to be fighting on, from her vantage point." “I love people thinking of me as the underdog,” Lightfoot said. “I’ve been an underdog my whole life. And I’ve always proven people wrong, so I’m OK in that lane.” Now Lightfoot At a candidate forum last week, Lightfoot focused her attacks on Johnson, who has not led in polling in the way Garcia and Vallas have. It appeared to be an acknowledgment that she was battling with a surging candidate who ultimately could crowd her out from advancing to the next round. “I take it as a sign of desperation,” Johnson said of Lightfoot’s attacks. Johnson’s support from the Chicago Teachers Union brings with it a strong, on-the-ground organization that can go door to door on his behalf. “She certainly recognizes that our movement is gaining steam, and more and more people are responding to our message.” Li...

Current job: Mayor of Chicago Government experience: Assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1996-2002); chief administrator, Chicago Police Department Office of Professional Standards (2002-04); chief of staff and general counsel, Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (2004-05); first deputy procurement officer, Chicago Department of Procurement Services (2005); co-chair, Chicago Police Accountability Task Force (2016); president, Chicago Police Board (2015-18). What plans would you implement to improve the Chicago Transit Authority’s bus and train service as well as other avenues of transportation, including automobiles and bikes? As we move from the pandemic, the CTA, like other urban transit systems, is grappling with a range of circumstances, some outside of its control, but which are all impacting the delivery of services. We have taken significant steps to make CTA bus and rail service safer and more reliable across all of our neighborhoods. Advertisement Last year, the violent crime rate on the CTA began to drop. We made progress because we deepened our collaboration and communications with both Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) locals. Both locals have identified a number of steps we could take to improve safety. We strongly believe the people closest to the challenges are closest to the solutions. That strong candid partnership continues and has resulted in concrete, tangible actions. For example, the CTA doubled the size ...

Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot will be the city's first black female and first openly gay mayor. She's also the first in decades who was not born in Chicago. But her childhood in Massillon, Ohio, shaped the person she would become, according to those who knew her then. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) MASSILLON, Ohio — She was devastated when she earned a B grade in class. She was a celebrated point guard on the basketball team, sang in the choir, played trumpet in the band and, by being elected president of her class three times in a row, she demonstrated that she was a standout among the students at Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio. So when it was time to select “Miss Massillonian”— the young woman who would represent the small Ohio city and who was often admired as destined to become the most successful — Lori Lightfoot’s classmates thought she would make history and become only the second African-American woman to hold the pageant title. “There’s no doubt that she had to work harder to be in that position,” said Jennifer Brown Grizzard, 57, who attended high school with Lightfoot from 1977 until 1980. “Lori was so focused. … She should have won.” For Lightfoot’s close-knit community of friends and family back in her hometown, she’s taking her rightful position at the top. And her rapid ascent from a relatively unknown prosecutor to mayor is no surprise to the people who knew her in her formative years. “Lori can do ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave a farewell speech to the city Monday afternoon as Lightfoot delivered her remarks on Monday from the Broader Urban Involvement & Leadership Development, or BUILD, headquarters in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. The organization is a “nationally respected gang intervention, violence prevention, and youth development organization,” according to their She joined Chicago’s top prosecutor and police chief as black leaders in a city that continues to struggle with race relations. Mayor Lightfoot had a record of achievements that included pushing through a $15 minimum wage that labor unions had sought for years and approval of a long-sought casino that’s expected to bring millions in revenue and thousands of jobs. She also had budgeted over $3 million to protect access to abortion, including for people who travel to Chicago from states where the procedure is illegal.

Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot will be the city's first black female and first openly gay mayor. She's also the first in decades who was not born in Chicago. But her childhood in Massillon, Ohio, shaped the person she would become, according to those who knew her then. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) MASSILLON, Ohio — She was devastated when she earned a B grade in class. She was a celebrated point guard on the basketball team, sang in the choir, played trumpet in the band and, by being elected president of her class three times in a row, she demonstrated that she was a standout among the students at Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio. So when it was time to select “Miss Massillonian”— the young woman who would represent the small Ohio city and who was often admired as destined to become the most successful — Lori Lightfoot’s classmates thought she would make history and become only the second African-American woman to hold the pageant title. “There’s no doubt that she had to work harder to be in that position,” said Jennifer Brown Grizzard, 57, who attended high school with Lightfoot from 1977 until 1980. “Lori was so focused. … She should have won.” For Lightfoot’s close-knit community of friends and family back in her hometown, she’s taking her rightful position at the top. And her rapid ascent from a relatively unknown prosecutor to mayor is no surprise to the people who knew her in her formative years. “Lori can do ...

What’s appearing increasingly possible, however, is that Lightfoot If a candidate fails to win a majority in Chicago’s municipal election, the top two vote-getters face off against each other in a second round of voting in April. But with less than two weeks to the Feb. 28 election, Lightfoot — a firecracker Democrat who quickly brandished a national All that adds up to the stunning prospect that a sitting big-city mayor could be eliminated from re-election contention in the first round of voting. "It's looking harder and harder for her," one of her competitors, Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, D-Ill., said in an interview. "It's a hell of a front to be fighting on, from her vantage point." “I love people thinking of me as the underdog,” Lightfoot said. “I’ve been an underdog my whole life. And I’ve always proven people wrong, so I’m OK in that lane.” Now Lightfoot At a candidate forum last week, Lightfoot focused her attacks on Johnson, who has not led in polling in the way Garcia and Vallas have. It appeared to be an acknowledgment that she was battling with a surging candidate who ultimately could crowd her out from advancing to the next round. “I take it as a sign of desperation,” Johnson said of Lightfoot’s attacks. Johnson’s support from the Chicago Teachers Union brings with it a strong, on-the-ground organization that can go door to door on his behalf. “She certainly recognizes that our movement is gaining steam, and more and more people are responding to our message.” Li...

Current job: Mayor of Chicago Government experience: Assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1996-2002); chief administrator, Chicago Police Department Office of Professional Standards (2002-04); chief of staff and general counsel, Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (2004-05); first deputy procurement officer, Chicago Department of Procurement Services (2005); co-chair, Chicago Police Accountability Task Force (2016); president, Chicago Police Board (2015-18). What plans would you implement to improve the Chicago Transit Authority’s bus and train service as well as other avenues of transportation, including automobiles and bikes? As we move from the pandemic, the CTA, like other urban transit systems, is grappling with a range of circumstances, some outside of its control, but which are all impacting the delivery of services. We have taken significant steps to make CTA bus and rail service safer and more reliable across all of our neighborhoods. Advertisement Last year, the violent crime rate on the CTA began to drop. We made progress because we deepened our collaboration and communications with both Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) locals. Both locals have identified a number of steps we could take to improve safety. We strongly believe the people closest to the challenges are closest to the solutions. That strong candid partnership continues and has resulted in concrete, tangible actions. For example, the CTA doubled the size ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave a farewell speech to the city Monday afternoon as Lightfoot delivered her remarks on Monday from the Broader Urban Involvement & Leadership Development, or BUILD, headquarters in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. The organization is a “nationally respected gang intervention, violence prevention, and youth development organization,” according to their She joined Chicago’s top prosecutor and police chief as black leaders in a city that continues to struggle with race relations. Mayor Lightfoot had a record of achievements that included pushing through a $15 minimum wage that labor unions had sought for years and approval of a long-sought casino that’s expected to bring millions in revenue and thousands of jobs. She also had budgeted over $3 million to protect access to abortion, including for people who travel to Chicago from states where the procedure is illegal.

Current job: Mayor of Chicago Government experience: Assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1996-2002); chief administrator, Chicago Police Department Office of Professional Standards (2002-04); chief of staff and general counsel, Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (2004-05); first deputy procurement officer, Chicago Department of Procurement Services (2005); co-chair, Chicago Police Accountability Task Force (2016); president, Chicago Police Board (2015-18). What plans would you implement to improve the Chicago Transit Authority’s bus and train service as well as other avenues of transportation, including automobiles and bikes? As we move from the pandemic, the CTA, like other urban transit systems, is grappling with a range of circumstances, some outside of its control, but which are all impacting the delivery of services. We have taken significant steps to make CTA bus and rail service safer and more reliable across all of our neighborhoods. Advertisement Last year, the violent crime rate on the CTA began to drop. We made progress because we deepened our collaboration and communications with both Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) locals. Both locals have identified a number of steps we could take to improve safety. We strongly believe the people closest to the challenges are closest to the solutions. That strong candid partnership continues and has resulted in concrete, tangible actions. For example, the CTA doubled the size ...

Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot will be the city's first black female and first openly gay mayor. She's also the first in decades who was not born in Chicago. But her childhood in Massillon, Ohio, shaped the person she would become, according to those who knew her then. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) MASSILLON, Ohio — She was devastated when she earned a B grade in class. She was a celebrated point guard on the basketball team, sang in the choir, played trumpet in the band and, by being elected president of her class three times in a row, she demonstrated that she was a standout among the students at Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio. So when it was time to select “Miss Massillonian”— the young woman who would represent the small Ohio city and who was often admired as destined to become the most successful — Lori Lightfoot’s classmates thought she would make history and become only the second African-American woman to hold the pageant title. “There’s no doubt that she had to work harder to be in that position,” said Jennifer Brown Grizzard, 57, who attended high school with Lightfoot from 1977 until 1980. “Lori was so focused. … She should have won.” For Lightfoot’s close-knit community of friends and family back in her hometown, she’s taking her rightful position at the top. And her rapid ascent from a relatively unknown prosecutor to mayor is no surprise to the people who knew her in her formative years. “Lori can do ...