Over the next three-plus weeks — via mail-in ballot, early voting and runoff Election Day voting on April 4 — hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans will cast a ballot for the city’s next mayor. They will choose between former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson.
There are very clear differences between the candidates on issues such as education, policing and city finances. Those divergent views were on display in their first head-to-head debate this week. Also on display were their accusations that the other candidate seeks to make race an issue in the campaign.
