Chicago mayoral election day Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson vie for top job in runoff

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…

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