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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

Crime defines Chicago mayoral race: ‘The No. 1, 2 and 3 issue’

Anthony Tamez, a candidate for 17th Police District council, outside the North Park Village voting site. At 23, he is one of the youngest people on Tuesday’s ballot. According to unofficial returns, Tamez won his race. (Lynn Sweet/Sun-Times)

The North Park Village election site, at 5801 N. Pulaski Road, is tucked into one of the hidden jewels of Chicago, a 155-acre bucolic preserve born in the early 1900s as the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium.

On Tuesday, Election Day, a ribbon of campaign signs for candidates for mayor, City Council and police districts lined most of the driveway — about 1,000 feet — from Pulaski to near the steps of the administration building, where voting was taking place in a majestic room at the end of a covered portico.

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