Split City | Martha Bayne
In the runoff for the next Chicago mayor, voters are confronted with two radically different visions of what a city can and should do.
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In the runoff for the next Chicago mayor, voters are confronted with two radically different visions of what a city can and should do.
The Daleys’ ghosts are hovering over this choice.
Paul Vallas should do what my dad, Bernard Epton did not do: Pivot to a different message. One that unites.
Today, we see race, ethnicity and gender continue to be issues in Chicago, but fortunately the voters seem to have gotten a little better at focusing on issues that affect all colors of Chicagoans.
Chicago’s mayoral runoff is shaping up like a rerun of the volatile racial politics of the Harold Washington-Bernard Epton era.