It wasn’t even close. Chicago voters spoke loud and clear electing Lori Lightfoot mayor of Chicago. As she said herself, “Today, you did more than make history… You created a movement for change.” Lightfoot becomes the first black women and first openly gay person to hold this office in Chicago.
"They’re seeing a city where it doesn’t matter what color you are, where it sure doesn’t matter how tall you are, and where it doesn’t matter who you love."
— Lori Lightfoot (@LightfootForChi) April 3, 2019
After waging a campaign focused on upending the vaunted Chicago political machine, Lightfoot dismantled one of its major cogs by dispatching Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, whose candidacy had been hobbled in part by an anti-incumbent mood among voters and an ongoing federal corruption investigation at City Hall.
“When we started this journey 11 months ago, nobody gave us much of a chance. We were up against powerful interests, a powerful machine, and a powerful Mayor.”
— Lori Lightfoot (@LightfootForChi) April 3, 2019
Take a look at part of Lightfoot’s victory speech above from Chicago’s WGN.