Lori Lightfoot may become the first Chicago mayor in 34 years to lose an election. It’s a warning to mayors elsewhere, including Eric Adams, that incumbency advantage will only go so far in this new, uneasy age for big cities. RossBarkan reports
“Where did we come to?” she asked the crowd.“West Side!”more than $2 billion in public and private investments to revitalize working-class communities in the historically disinvested West and South Sides. If she were a typical Chicago mayor, she would be able to count on another four years, at minimum, to see the plan through, reveling in splashy ribbon-cuttings for new affordable housing complexes, firehouses, and parks.
Lightfoot is in danger of not only losing but not surviving the first round on February 28, when the top-two vote getters will advance to a spring runoff if no one wins a majority of votes. The Democratreach the top two in a field that features at least four viable candidates, but nothing is assured. One
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