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Chicago voters on Tuesday elected far-left activist and teacher’s union lobbyist Brandon Johnson to be the next mayor of the nation’s third largest city.
The 2023 Chicago mayoral election was held on February 28, 2023, to elect the mayor of Chicago, Illinois. With no candidate receiving a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held on April 4.
Tuesday’s vote will come exactly 40 years after the 1983 mayoral race in which Washington became Chicago’s first Black mayor, which remains a watershed moment in the city’s politics ...
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The 2023 Chicago elections took place in two rounds on February 28, 2023, and April 4, 2023. Elections were held for Mayor of Chicago , City Clerk of Chicago , City Treasurer of Chicago , all 50 members of the Chicago City Council , and 66 members of the newly created police District Councils.
Brandon Johnson (born March 27, 1976) [1] [2] is an American politician and educator who is currently serving as the 57th mayor of Chicago since 2023. [3] [4] [5] A member of the Democratic Party, Johnson previously served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2018 to 2023, representing the 1st district.
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters on The post Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff appeared first on TheGrio.
In time for the 1911 election the Illinois legislature passed a law which scheduled Chicago mayoral party primaries for the last Tuesday of February. [6] On June 26, 1913, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi River to grant women's suffrage. [7] 1915 was the first Chicago mayoral election to be held following this change. [8]