Chicago will have a black and lesbian mayor | His …

As part of a landmark event, a black and bad woman was elected mayor of the third largest city in the United States, Chicago, grappling with serious problems of economic inequality and violence in the United States. help with firearms.

Lori Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal attorney and attorney-at-law, who has never held an elective office before, said Toni Preckwinkle, also an African-American, at 74% versus 26% of the vote in the polls. preliminary.

Lightfoot will become Chicago's first openly gay mayor and the first African-American woman to hold office. Since 1837, the electors of this city have elected so far only a black mayor and a woman mayor.

Preckwinkle is the executive director of Cook County, where Chicago is located, which badysts said was played against her during an election that was aimed at a change. "People are waiting for something different to happen because the ship in question is overwhelming," Lightfoot told the press before the polls opened.

Voters left little doubt about the desire of the next mayor to address the city's main problems of 2.7 million residents, particularly economic disparities and violence caused by firearms causing more casualties than in other big cities. United States.

Last year, more than 550 people were killed in Chicago because of gang violence, often fueled by drug trafficking, mostly in African-American neighborhoods and struggling with economic hardships.