CHICAGO — Calling herself an agent of change and “the only rational choice” for Chicago voters, Mayor Lori Lightfoot filed her paperwork Monday for a reelection run.
But the end of the weeklong filing period only further highlighted the difficult race ahead of her, with the last of eight remaining major challengers — U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García and Ald. Roderick Sawyer — also petitioning to get onto the Feb. 28 ballot.
“With the filing today, one chapter in the campaign ends and another opens,” she said after submitting a stack of nominating papers that, sitting on the Board of Elections table, almost reached her shoulders.
