Chicago will soon have its first African American female mayor

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Chicago voters will make history Tuesday when they head to the polls to choose the city’s 56th mayor. No matter the result of the runoff, Chicago will elect for the first time an African American woman to occupy City Hall’s fifth floor.

Chicago mayoral candidates Lori Lightfoot, right, and Toni Preckwinkle participate in a candidate forum in Chicago last month.

“I think about the children, and the city they will grow up in and what it will mean for young boys and girls to see leaders who look like them in the mayor’s office. You know what they say, ‘You cannot be what you cannot see,’ ” Preckwinkle said during a rally before hundreds of African American voters at the Harold Washington Cultural Center last month.

“We are on the eve of a historic election in our city, one of the first times we’ll have a real choice since Harold Washington ran for the second time,” Lightfoot said in a Saturday speech to a few hundred black voters at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s headquarters in Chicago. “We have the opportunity to bring all parts of our city together, to forge a new direction for our city that welcomes everyone to the table.

Chicago mayoral candidate Toni Preckwinkle campaigns in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago on March 24. Both candidates spent Monday scurrying around the city and encouraging voters to fulfill their civic duty amid mounting concerns about low voter turnout.

 

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I’m sure crime will dry up overnight now 😅

The ignorants of LA. There is only 2 women running!!!

Conflicted this headline is still news in 2019. Will the mayor get 60% of every dollar or equalpay ?

Tranny counts?

The answer was there all along.

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