Progressive candidates appear to have won at least nine of the 14 City Council runoffs, ensuring most of the new alderpeople taking office alongside Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson will shift the balance of power at City Hall to the left.
Johnson, the first member of Generation X to be elected Chicago mayor, will replace Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a member of the Baby Boomer generation.
In the highest profile race, housing organizer Angela Clay defeated Kim Walz, who works in government relations for Walgreens, in the contest to represent the 46th Ward, which includes Uptown. Clay will replace retiring Ald. James Cappleman, and become the seventh Democratic Socialist elected to the City Council.
Steve Weishampel, the co-chair of the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, said Clay’s victory was especially sweet because the group failed to elect five other City Council challengers they endorsed. All six self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists running for re-election won new terms in February.Five Democratic Socialist members of the City Council are set to lead committees starting in May, under a plan approved by the City Council just before Johnson’s victory.
And if need be, the group will hold its allies’ feet to the fire — and hold them accountable, Weishampel said.In the neighboring 48th Ward, small business owner Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth declared victory over affordable housing developer Joe Dunne. Manaa-Hoppenworth will join the Progressive Caucus along with Clay.
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