CHICAGO — After Rahm Emanuel announced he would not seek another term as Chicago’s mayor, the field of would-be replacements seemed to grow by the day. Yet on Tuesday, voters sided with Ms. Lightfoot in overwhelming margins, handing her a resounding victory as she prepares to become the first African-American woman and first openly gay person to serve as Chicago’s mayor. Ms. Lightfoot’s outsider status and her pledge to combat political corruption resonated across the city’s traditional dividing lines of race and class. “Today, you did more than make history,” Ms. Lightfoot told a packed ballroom of her supporters that chanted her name on Tuesday night. “You created a movement for change.”[Read how Chicago became the largest American city to elect a black woman as its mayor, and how Chicagoans feel about it.]

Source: New York Times April 03, 2019 11:37 UTC