Breaking: Lori Lightfoot is officially out as Mayor of Chicago. As Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson advance to a runoff. (Greenwood: property taxes, live in)

[Hiruko]

Originally Posted by Grlzrl

Well, I think it's over, folks. So glad I got out of that shi$hole city. My old SUBURBAN neighborhood had an armed robbery today.

Yeah, early results don't look good. :-(

Look at the 46th ward...

[Avondalist]

Millennials and Gen Z are in the driver's seat now. They're going to make the same mistakes their parents did in the 70s.

[Kmanshouse]

Well that's disappointing but I'm hoping it'll be better than we think.

[Hiruko]

Originally Posted by Hiruko

I knew Vallas' deceased son when I was younger. We were roughly the same age and two of my lower, middle, and high school best friends were good friends with him. I did not realize he had died until Paul's campaign this time around. Vallas is a political chameleon who I think earnestly favors a more moderate-to-conservative approach to public policy. I always perceived their family as relatively conservative, to be honest. I had hoped Lightfoot would have made the runoff because the woman is centrist and tolerable compared to Johnson and Garcia. However, I also felt she would be easier to beat.

Regardless, I do believe that Vallas has a decent chance. I have been telling everyone that I think that Johnson has the clear upper hand without even knowing much of anything about him. While the genuine hardline progressive base represents a clear minority of voters, I think that it will be much easier for Johnson to assemble a winning coalition of middle-income white ideological progressives and African-American voters. Vallas did not even finish top three in most of the predominately African-American wards.

In addition, those that actually vote in municipal elections do not necessarily reflect the current demographics of the city and I am skeptical that Vallas will be able to turn out the number of more moderate white, Hispanic, and Asian voters required to win. I hope I am wrong, but I think that moderate and right-leaning Chicago voters already united behind Vallas in this general and only captured 34% of the vote. With Johnson, Lightfoot, and Garcia voters, you are already at 51% of the general vote. I doubt very seriously many of those voters will shift to Vallas by the time the runoff is over.

Wow. I was too accurate. ~51%.

[Hendu]

Vallas totally lost this election rather than some wave of progressive sentiment. I voted for the guy but man was he an embarrassing candidate. As more of his pandemic-era boomer social media activity came to light it was so easy for the BJ campaign to hammer away at him. Then Betsy DeVos donates to his campaign and the piece of garbage head of the FOP starts making threats instead of keeping a low profile sealed the deal.

I knew it was over when regulars at my bar who voted for Vallas in round 1 were saying "gross" and "go back to Palos" when his commercials came on during March Madness.

Prediction - Chicago will be fine but people that no longer live here and literally OBSESS about their old city instead of being happy with their retirement home in the Villages or wherever and not comprehending that most of the city is 100x better than it was in the 70s-90s, will keep us updated on every crime that makes the news.

[Bitey]

Originally Posted by Avondalist

Millennials and Gen Z are in the driver's seat now. They're going to make the same mistakes their parents did in the 70s.

Well we're looking to sell our suburban home in about five years. If patterns happen in waves, that seems about the time things in the city will start racing for the bottom, and suburban housing for Zoomers grabbing their young families and fleeing the predictable results of their own policy choices will be near their peak.

Thanks Zoomer voters!

[Robert9]

Originally Posted by Bitey

Well we're looking to sell our suburban home in about five years. That seems about the time when things in the city will near the bottom and suburban housing for Zoomers fleeing the predictable results of their own policy choices so their kids have a shot at a decent education will be in peak demand.

Thanks Zoomer voters!

chiraq is going to get what it deserves

[Hiruko]

Originally Posted by Hendu

Vallas totally lost this election rather than some wave of progressive sentiment. I voted for the guy but man was he an embarrassing candidate. As more of his pandemic-era boomer social media activity came to light it was so easy for the BJ campaign to hammer away at him. Then Betsy DeVos donates to his campaign and the piece of garbage head of the FOP starts making threats instead of keeping a low profile sealed the deal.

I knew it was over when regulars at my bar who voted for Vallas in round 1 were saying "gross" and "go back to Palos" when his commercials came on during March Madness.

Prediction - Chicago will be fine but people that no longer live here and literally OBSESS about their old city instead of being happy with their retirement home in the Villages or wherever and not comprehending that most of the city is 100x better than it was in the 70s-90s, will keep us updated on every crime that makes the news.

The kind of people that lose sleep over Betsy DeVos or whoever the FOP boss is weren’t going to vote for Vallas anyway. Nice try!

[Vlajos]

Chicago is screwed. Two years and we are out.

[RowingFiend]

Hilarious. The fools in Chicago replaced Lightfoot with a clone or someone worse. Can't fix stupid.