Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid as city battles crime epidemic
Receiving only 16.4% of the vote, Lightfoot, 60, finished behind former head of Chicago Public Schools Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson in Tuesday’s race.
Vallas, who took 35% of the vote, and Johnson, who obtained 20.2% of the vote, will head to an April 4 runoff election to determine who will be the city’s next mayor.
“I will be rooting and praying for our next mayor,” Lightfoot said in her concession speech.
She called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.”