Chicagoans Are Picking a Mayor Heres What Matters From 4 Key Wards

CHICAGO — Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods, a sprawling metropolis divided into distinctive pockets defined by their own architecture, restaurants, languages, ballparks and beaches. But this is a heated election season, so Chicagoans are temporarily dissecting the city in a more political parlance: the mathematics of wards. There are 50 wards in all, each represented by a member in the City Council, and each with its own identity. The political winds can shift with every mayoral contest: In a runoff election in 2019, Mayor Lori Lightfoot won all 50, but in her unsuccessful February bid for re-election…