One the largest groups of candidates ever to run for mayor includes some of the most well-known Chicago names from the last 30 years
While Preckwinkle, Cook County Board president, hopes there's enough"Daley fatigue" for voters to be leery of electing a third member of the same family to office, many Chicagoans also have grown tired of the corruption that continues to plague much of the city's politics.
Some of that cronyism has recently put the once-possible frontrunner Preckwinkle on the defensive after a recentthat she hired the son of powerful old-school Alderman Ed Burke to a $100,000 a year job with the county. Burke, the longest-serving alderman in Chicago history, representing his South Side district for 50 years, was recently charged with attempted extortion after the FBI raided his offices in January.
Emanuel fired McCarthy as part of the fallout following the release of explosive police dashcam video that showed white police officershooting black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014 while McDonald walked away from police. The video's release led to widespread protests throughout the city and a federal investigation by the US Justice Department into civil rights abuses within the police department.
While all the candidates claim they are the right choice for continuing to reform the police department, former Assistant US Attorney Lightfoot has made holding abusive officers accountable for their actions a bedrock of her campaign.
Two other mayoral hopefuls are highlighting their backgrounds with the Chicago public school system as the experience needed to move the city forward as an educational and technology center. Vallas, the former CPS CEO ran the nation's third-largest public school system for six years, earning praise from then-President Bill Clinton for helping
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