After tight race for mayor, Black political establishment may face a ‘reckoning’

A voter feeds her ballot into a voting machine on Election Day at Isabelle C. O’Keeffe School in South Shore on April 4. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Chicago chose progress over moderation on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death.

The race for mayor was called in Brandon Johnson’s favor late Tuesday after a long evening when it remained too close to call, an apt metaphor for the political winds of Chicago voters.