Chicago mayoral election day Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson vie for top job in runoff
CHICAGO – Voters head to the polls Tuesday to determine the new mayor of the nation’s third-largest city in a highly anticipated runoff election. It’s a race between a former public schools executive backed by the city’s police union and a former teacher endorsed by the teachers union. Paul Vallas, 69, and Brandon Johnson, 46, emerged as the top two vote-getters in a late February election, when none of the nine candidates received a majority of the vote. They’ve spent the past five weeks making their final appeals to Chicagoans, and polls suggest it’s a close contest: A recent survey…