Chicago mayoral election

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who has faced criticism over gun violence in the city, might not make the cut in the nine-candidate race that is expected to go to a ...

Lightfoot positioned herself as the centrist candidate, accusing Vallas of secretly being a Republican and Johnson of wanting to defund the police. Vallas, who led the city’s school system from 1995 to 2001, also ran for mayor in 2019, but failed to make the runoff. Emanuel won outright in 2011, but his reelection in 2015 and Lightfoot’s first race in 2019 both went to runoffs. At a polling place in Wicker Park, an area that has rapidly gentrified over the past two decades and is now home to many affluent white-collar professionals, Pilar Lizasoain, 35, was voting in a mayoral election for the first time since moving to the city four years ago. He has appealed to voters with a message largely centered on public safety and a plan to deploy hundreds more officers on Chicago’s streets. Lightfoot, 60, a former prosecutor, faced a runoff in 2019, ultimately securing 73 percent of the vote and winning every ward in the city, making history as Chicago’s first mayor to be a Black woman or openly gay. “I hear people that have moved here in the past three to five years saying, ‘I can’t vote for her because of all the crime.’ Well, the reason there’s all this crime is about much more than Lori.” But you never regret taking on the powerful, and bringing in the light,” she told the crowd gathered at her election night party at a union hall in downtown. Johnson, who ran as the more liberal choice, had a last-minute surge, according to Cobb. “It’s always better in this kind of race for people to be united,” Rush said. Rush (D-Ill.) said he was disappointed that Lightfoot was not the consensus candidate for Black voters. Lightfoot is the first incumbent in 40 years to be ousted after just one term.

Candidates in the Chicago mayor election are vying for undecided voters. A new poll shows Paul Vallas on top, with Brandon Johnson behind him.

Jesus "Chuy" Garcia was in fourth place at the end of election night, but said he had no plans to concede tonight and instead wanted to wait for mail in ballots to be counted. "Tonight is about building a Chicago that truly invests in our people," he told supporters. Johnson experienced a surge in recent polls and finished second to qualify for the runoff. Johnson grew up on the West Side and lives in Austin, and has strong connections with the CTU and teachers across the city. While his background and expertise is in education, he made his campaign about public safety and was endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police. "I would like to thank you all, old friends and new, for joining this campaign," Vallas told his supporters at the Fulton Market event space City Hall.

Chicago residents head to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor in the nation's third-largest city, where crime has emerged as a key ballot issue.

[new civilian police oversight model](https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/ccpsa/supp_info/district-councils.html). Voters will elect three people to serve on councils in each of the city’s 22 police districts. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, 66, ran for mayor in 2015 and previously served on the Chicago City Council and the Cook County Board of Commissioners and in the Illinois state Senate. Other candidates include City Council members Sophia King and Roderick Sawyer, Illinois Rep. [rose in cities across the nation](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/26/crime-rate-homicides-shootings-declined-2022/11075070002/) during the pandemic, including in Chicago, where [carjackings](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/26/crime-rate-homicides-shootings-declined-2022/11075070002/) and [shootings](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/09/20/gun-violence-covid-19-kids-children-shot-2020/7606846002/) soared. Violent crime [Baby and teen among 3 killed in Chicago highway shooting; 3 others injured](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/21/chicago-highway-shooting-baby-killed/11310669002/) His campaign has focused on law-and-order, school choice and reforming the city's finances. Garcia entered the race late but has cast himself as someone who can unite progressives. She's also received criticism for her handling of He previously ran for mayor in Chicago and for governor and lieutenant governor in Illinois. [an 11-day teachers strike](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/31/chicago-teachers-strike-union-tentative-agreement-makeup-days/4106271002/), [the COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/02/some-flash-and-some-social-media-chicagos-mayor-battles-covid-19/3068658001/) and [protests in the summer of 2020](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-police-chicago-dc-los-angeles-philadelphia/5313132002/).

Voting in the Chicago mayoral election began Tuesday as incumbent Lori Lightfoot aims to avoid becoming the first one-term mayor in decades.

[LORI LIGHTFOOT CLAIMS SHE ‘MISSPOKE’ WHEN TELLING VOTERS WHO DON'T SUPPORT HER NOT TO VOTE](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-claims-she-misspoke-when-telling-voters-who-dont-support-her-not-vote) [‘PANDEMIC OF VIOLENCE’: LIGHTFOOT’S RECORD ON CRIME AT THE FOREFRONT OF CHICAGO MAYORAL ELECTION](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pandemic-violence-lightfoots-record-crime-forefront-chicago-mayoral-election) Jesus "Chuy" Garcia](https://www.foxnews.com/us/rep-jesus-chuy-garcia-announces-run-chicago-mayor-days-after-reelected-congress), who represents Illinois's 4th Congressional District, has also made his way onto the ballot after previously forcing a run-off against former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2015. [Chicago mayoral race](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/chicago) began Tuesday in an election that could make incumbent Lori Lightfoot the city's first one-term mayor since 1983. Jesus Chuy Garcia is also locked in a tight race with Lightfoot. He was also endorsed by the progressive group United Working Families.

An early April runoff is all but certain; the big question for Tuesday is whether incumbent Lori Lightfoot will advance.

[Georgia House of Representatives](https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_House_of_Representatives). [District 119](https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_House_of_Representatives_District_119) sits west of Athens. The [nominees](https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/special-election-148th-house-figueroa-anastos-17803967.php) are Democrat Anabel Figueroa and Republican Olga Anastos. [District 100](https://ballotpedia.org/Connecticut_House_of_Representatives_District_100): This district is in the southcentral part of the state. The [nominees](https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/middletown-pair-vying-fill-late-ct-lawmaker-s-seat-17803781.php) are Democrat Kai Juanna Belton and Republican Deborah Kleckowski. [this race may not be decided Tuesday](https://www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-mayoral-election-2023/why-chicagos-mayoral-election-may-not-be-decided-tuesday/3082441/). [nine candidates](https://news.wttw.com/elections/voters-guide/2023/races/chicago-mayor) on the ballot. [District 148](https://ballotpedia.org/Connecticut_House_of_Representatives_District_148): This Stamford area district was last represented by Democrat Dan Fox, who resigned in January. [Victory Research poll](https://www.270towin.com/doc_upload/Victory_Chicago_Mayor_022723.pdf), which surveyed 806 likely voters. [District 6](https://ballotpedia.org/Connecticut_House_of_Representatives_District_6): This Hartford district was vacated by Democrat Edwin Vargas, who resigned in early January. [Public safety is the dominant issue](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/chicago-mayors-race-dominated-concerns-crime-97460819) in the campaign. [Endorsed by the local Fraternal Order of Police](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/us/chicago-mayoral-election-lightfoot-vallas.html), Vallas has "called for expanding the police force, improving arrest rates for serious crimes and expanding charter schools."

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers in a fierce mayoral election and risks being ousted from City Hall after one term.

Lightfoot has been attacked from both the right and the left, and her challengers fit in familiar niches on the national Democratic spectrum. Vallas has attracted support from more conservative voters, especially in heavily white wards on the Northwest and Southwest Sides, where many police officers, firefighters and other city workers live. Who those candidates turn out to be may offer a glimpse into the direction of urban politics in post-pandemic America. And residents throughout the city say they are unsettled by a spike in robberies, muggings, carjackings and other property crimes, and they have placed the blame on Ms. Lightfoot in 2019 but are now fed up over crime and are willing to vote for a more conservative candidate. Lightfoot has already made proposals that could nudge the Loop away from its identity as a center for office workers, and toward becoming a more residential neighborhood and hub of cultural life. (In the 2020 presidential election, 83 percent of Chicago voters voted Democratic.) Assuming none wins an outright majority on Tuesday, the top two finishers in the race will advance to a runoff on April 4. If the plan is successful, it may become a model for other big cities that find themselves with excess commercial real estate as remote workers continue to balk at returning downtown. (The Chicago Loop Alliance, a business advocacy group, The area was battered during the pandemic and has yet to fully recover. CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers in a fierce mayoral election and risks being ousted from City Hall after one term. Lightfoot, who was elected in 2019, homicide rates soared to generational highs, an increase that was most deeply felt in pockets of the South and West Sides that have historically been plagued by gun violence.

Votes in the Chicago mayor race are being tallied, but with 100000 mail-in ballots outstanding, election officials say it may not be immediately clear who ...

[Sawyer](https://sawyer4chicago.com/), who has served as an alderman on the South Side for over a decade, [sponsored a proposal in 2020 to remove Chicago police from public schools](https://chicago.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4571740&GUID=453897C1-71C3-4CA6-877D-4F97580AABF5&Options=Advanced&Search=), but [it was thwarted by one of Lightfoot’s allies](https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-police-out-of-schools-ordinance-20200617-s3h2pad32bhdhggzsxzc3e4f6y-story.html) and did not pass. His education plan [promises to expand school choice and open school buildings](https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/3/23583579/paul-vallas-chicago-mayor-2023-education-platform-charter-magnet-open-schools) on nights and weekends. [King](https://www.sophiaforchicago.com/), who represents the 4th Ward which spans the South Side, serves as the vice chair of the Committee on Education and Child Development. [Wilson](https://www.electwilliewilson.com/?locale=en), a high-profile businessman, has focused on rebuilding from the pandemic through “ [educational grants, trade and business recovery](https://www.electwilliewilson.com/issues).” He wants to bolster vocational programs in high schools — a move already being undertaken by the district. [a sweeping $5 billion public safety plan](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/3/23537661/chiacgo-mayor-election-2023-jamal-green-public-safety-police-reform-housing-basic-income). She recently tried to [push Chicago Public Schools officials to appear quarterly before aldermen](https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/11/9/23449748/chicago-public-schools-city-council-budget-quarterly-meetings) or risk losing city money that supports school construction projects, but the measure failed. His [education platform](https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/8/23591805/chicago-mayor-election-brandon-johnson-chicago-teachers-union-paul-vallas-lori-lightfoot) promises more staff and free transit for students. [nine candidates running for mayor](https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/1/11/23550691/chicago-mayor-mayoral-election-2023-candidates-education-issues-overview-guide) could be headed to a runoff on April 4. [Johnson](https://www.brandonforchicago.com/) has been an organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union for the past decade. His [plan](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G8xRPQSBMUsa1ti6VQG6wMo1S34fsyfm/view) also calls for creating 10,000 apprenticeships for Chicagoans ages 13 to 25. [García](https://chuyforchicago.com/) famously [took former Mayor Rahm Emanuel into a runoff in 2015](https://www.npr.org/2015/04/07/398004427/emanuel-garcia-face-off-in-chicago-s-first-mayoral-runoff), with the backing of the Chicago Teachers Union. [shift to an elected school board begins](https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2021/7/30/22602068/illinois-governor-approves-elected-chicago-school-board) with 10 of 21 members elected in 2024.

The highly anticipated race for Chicago mayor remains tight, and uncertainly continues to swirl around which candidates will emerge victorious at the end of ...

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The Chicago mayoral race, where crime and public safety have emerged as primary issues, is on Tuesday and Lori Lightfoot could lose or end up in a runoff.

Chuy Garcia, who is fighting for the support of progressive supporters and has also run mainly on the issue of crime. He also has an endorsement from the local Fraternal Order of Police. But he has avoided answering questions on whether he would divest in or reduce the Chicago Police Department budget. Johnson has run on investing in community-based interventions that deescalate conflict. One of Lightfoot’s most formidable challengers is Paul Vallas, a Democrat with more conservative views. And, I’ll be the first to admit I’m just not the most patient person.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is currently in third place in the city's mayoral election, according to a new Victory Research poll, released as voters ...

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Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas is the first to qualify for the runoff election in April. Brandon Johnson is in 2nd place, then Lori Lightfoot.

There's so much focus on crime, crime, crime, crime, crime, crime," Jackson said. So things have to change," she said. The Rev. That's what's gonna be the most important issue for me," voter Lamar Brown said. It's going to be an incredibly important issue no matter who makes it to the runoff. The other factor is how the board processes the vote-by-mail ballots. "We vote today, and make a statement. We have deep investments, deep relationships and partnerships that we built. The largest group of voters by age were people 55 to 64 years old. "The most important thing to do is for people to vote, and then, if they vote in return, we're going to continue the work that we've been doing. a total of 507,852 votes had been cast for 32.1% citywide. "The city is clearly in crisis and people want a crisis manager who can come in and focus to get things done and avoid the rhetoric someone who can be inclusive," Vallas said.

The Chicago mayor — and the 50 City Council members — will have to deal with 66 members of police oversight panels. How much power they wield remains to be ...

Said Tamez, “I think the most significant power that comes with the seat is just the platform we are given.” A First Nation Cree, Tamez is a program contractor for the Center for Native American Youth. Tamez, an Irving Park resident, is running for a seat on the 17th Police District council, part of a three-person slate backed by a variety of progressive organizations. These spots have provided something very rare in the city for people interested in politics: an entry-level elected position where every seat is open with no incumbent. Crime is “overwhelmingly the issue voters are very concerned about,” Joe Trippi, the top strategist for the Vallas campaign, told me Friday. Towne said crime was “the No.

With polls set to close in Chicago Tuesday evening, vote totals are expected to begin rolling in, giving residents and the country the first look at what ...

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Vallas, who finished ninth in the 2019 mayoral race with just 30,236 votes, found himself thrust into the frontrunner spot in this election ...

Vallas served as an adviser to the Fraternal Order of Police during its negotiations with Lightfoot’s administration. This time around, Vallas received a number of high-profile endorsements, including from the Chicago Tribune and Ald. In recent years he has run for several offices, losing a bid to become Illinois' lieutenant governor when Pat Quinn was defeated by Bruce Rauner in 2014.

Chicago's next mayor will be either a progressive county commissioner Brandon Johnson or a former schools chief named Paul Vallas after incumbent mayor Lori ...

- Vallas, the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, ran a campaign criticizing Lightfoot's record on public safety and promising to restore law and order. He also won the endorsement of the Chicago police union. What's next: Chicago is in for another month of heavy campaigning before the runoff election on April 4. State of play: Lightfoot becomes only the second one-term Chicago mayor in 40 years. - She's also the first sitting Chicago mayor to lose in four decades. - No candidate won more than 50% of the vote, pushing Johnson and Vallas into a runoff to become mayor of America's third-largest city.

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas will secure a place in April's Chicago mayoral runoff, the Associated Press projects.

This time around, Vallas received a number of high-profile endorsements, including from the Chicago Tribune and Ald. In recent years he has run for several offices, losing a bid to become Illinois' lieutenant governor when Pat Quinn was defeated by Bruce Rauner in 2014. Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who had the support of the Chicago Teachers Union and other key labor groups, is currently running in second with 20% of the vote, and has triumphed over incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who will become the first elected mayor to lose a reelection bid since Jane Byrne in 1983.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for a second term Tuesday, failing to make a top-two runoff in the latest demonstration of growing concerns about ...

He’d attacked her record on crime early in the campaign and was backed by the conservative police union. Karen Bass](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/karen-bass-mayor-los-angeles/index.html) last year over billionaire developer Rick Caruso, who had pumped $100 million into a campaign in which he had focused on a pitch for law and order. Chicago’s municipal elections are non-partisan, but none of the candidates on the ballot Tuesday called themselves Republicans. [Mayor Eric Adams won](https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/politics/new-york-city-mayor-election-results/index.html) with a pro-police, tough-on-crime message in 2021. Tuesday’s municipal election marked the first time in more than 30 years that Chicago has ditched its mayor. Violence in the city spiked in 2020 and 2021. The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Vallas. In New York City, Pritzker, with whom Lightfoot has clashed, stayed out of the race entirely. The Chicago Teachers Union backed Johnson. Concerns about crime and public safety have rattled Chicago. Lightfoot found herself with few allies in her bid for a second term, and a host of powerful interests aligned against her.

CHICAGO (CN) — With more than two-thirds of the results counted in Chicago's mayoral election, incumbent mayor Lori Lightfoot has conceded the race. Lightfoot ...

"It's funny — Vallas has attacked Lightfoot over crime and now she's attacking Johnson over defunding the police." Though homicides and shootings have decreased in Chicago since an uptick in 2020, economic crimes such as burglary and car theft are on the rise. Lightfoot led the fundraising game in the race despite her loss. She is the first Chicago mayor in over 40 years who has not won re-election after their first term. At that time, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas was in first place with 36% of the vote, Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson was in second place with 20% and Lightfoot was in third place with 16% of the vote. with about 87% of the vote in.

Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will face off in the runoff Chicago mayor election in April. Lori Lightfoot conceded.

Jesus "Chuy" Garcia was in fourth place at the end of election night, but said he had no plans to concede tonight and instead wanted to wait for mail in ballots to be counted. "Tonight is about building a Chicago that truly invests in our people," he told supporters. Johnson experienced a surge in recent polls and finished second to qualify for the runoff. Johnson grew up on the West Side and lives in Austin, and has strong connections with the CTU and teachers across the city. While his background and expertise is in education, he made his campaign about public safety and was endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police. "I would like to thank you all, old friends and new, for joining this campaign," Vallas told his supporters at the Fulton Market event space City Hall.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot made history when she became the first Black, openly gay female mayor of Chicago in 2019, but she could make another kind of history as ...

Despite her efforts to woo the team with renovation proposals for Soldier Field, the team has completed a purchase agreement from the site of the Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights, and intends to pursue a new state-of-the-art stadium in the suburb. She thanked her supporters and said where one door closes, "another one opens." “Obviously, we didn’t win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high and a heart full of gratitude,” she said to supporters. She won all 50 of the city’s wards. She would later beat Preckwinkle handily, earning 73.7% of the vote in the runoff. Lightfoot also spearheaded the planning of a casino that would be located in the city, with Bally’s Corporation landing the rights to build a new resort on the west bank of the Chicago River on the former site of the Chicago Tribune publishing plant.

With a projected third place finish, Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's s first Back, openly gay female mayor, is expected to become the first elected mayor to lose ...

Additionally, the city still has nearly 100,000 outstanding mail-in ballots. "At this point, all things are prepared for a city wide runoff on April 4," CBOE spokesman Max Bever said during an update Tuesday. And according to the Chicago Board of Elections, the city had already made preparations for that outcome. “Obviously, we didn’t win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high and a heart full of gratitude,” Lightfoot said in a concession speech Tuesday. Wednesday, Vallas led with 34% of the vote, holding a comfortable lead over his closest challengers. Ward 10: Vallas, 36.14% Ward 2: Vallas, 61.96% Although Lightfoot won more individual wards than Johnson, Johnson won more votes citywide. As of 6 a.m. With 99% of precincts reporting as of 5 a.m. Additionally, the Chicago Board of Elections is still waiting on more than 90,000 mail-in ballots to be returned, processed and counted. A map of current mayoral election results for all 50 wards is below.

Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters on Tuesday denied incumbent Lori Lightfoot a second term, ...

Johnson has avoided the word "defund" during the race, and his campaign says he doesn't want to cut the number of police officers. "Lori has had her chance," said Lonnell Jolly, a 45-year-old customer service representative who lives on the West Side and voted for businessman Willie Wilson. city to face reelection following the pandemic, the recession and the crime wave that's occurred in many places. During the campaign, Lightfoot touted her record of investing in neighborhoods and supporting workers, such as by increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Jackson said he supported Lightfoot four years ago but cast his ballot for Vallas in Tuesday's election because he said Lightfoot "did not hold control over the violence in the communities." "No other mayor has been asked to change this city within four years," said city Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, who is Black, and noted that White mayors like Emanuel and Richard Daley served multiple terms. At his victory party, Vallas noted that Lightfoot had called to congratulate him and asked the crowd to give her a round of applause. 6 insurrectionists at the Capitol and equated Lightfoot's vaccine mandate for city workers to the Holocaust. Vallas served as an adviser to what CBS Chicago calls "the right-leaning" Fraternal Order of Police during its negotiations with Lightfoot's administration. With about 98% of the vote counted, Vallas was leading with 34% and Johnson was in second place with 20%, the station said. They hammered her over a spike in crime that began during [ the COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.cbsnews.com/feature/coronavirus/) and a leadership style they say is unnecessarily combative. Johnson, a Cook County commissioner, received about $1 million from the Chicago Teachers Union for his campaign and had support from several other progressive organizations, including United Working Families.

Mr. Vallas, a former public school executive with more conservative views on crime and education, will face Brandon Johnson, a progressive county ...

Mr. “It didn’t make a lot of sense, other than the school was in trouble and it looked like the school’s in such a crisis that, hey, let’s throw a fixer like Paul over there,” Mr. Vallas had a cordial relationship with the Chicago Teachers Union, an organization that battled repeatedly with the last two Chicago mayors and that helped elevate Mr. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Mr. Supporters of Mr. Creg Williams, who worked as a school district administrator under Mr. As he made his case to voters, Mr. Vallas [suggested](https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-vallas-responds-to-tweets-20230225-gjfsmla2mvdrrblyftqr3lxhle-story.html) his account was breached.) Mr. “We cannot have this man as the mayor of the city of Chicago,” Mr. Vallas positioned himself this year well to the political right of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and even further to the right of Mr. After unsuccessful runs for governor in 2002, lieutenant governor in 2014 and mayor in 2019, Mr. “Public safety is the fundamental right of every American: It is a civil right and it is the principal responsibility of government,” Mr.

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Another election day and night in Chicago has come and gone, but the results of at least a dozen aldermanic races — along with who will become the next ...

And according to the Chicago Board of Elections, the city had already made preparations for that outcome. Additionally, the city still has nearly 100,000 outstanding mail-in ballots. "At this point, all things are prepared for a city wide runoff on April 4," CBOE spokesman Max Bever said during an update Tuesday. The battle to replace Ald. Harry Osterman will head to a runoff, with Joe Dunne and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth likely facing off. Timmy Knudsen only drew 27% of the vote in his ward, and will likely face Brian Comer in a runoff. Gilbert Villegas will face a runoff in April against Leonor Torres Whitt after failing to reach the 50% threshold. He is barely under the 50% threshold according to the latest returns, so mail-in ballots could prove critical in determining whether that race will carry forward into April. Monique Scott is heading for a runoff, where she will likely face Creative Scott. “Obviously, we didn’t win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high and a heart full of gratitude,” Lightfoot said in a concession speech Tuesday. Wednesday, Vallas led with 34% of the vote, holding a comfortable lead over his closest challengers. While there is still one precinct left to report, Ald.