As a former big-city mayor, I’m endlessly intrigued by local politics and the personalities and events that shape them. Having served as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, there are some issues that are common to all 1,400+ cities I represented, and some that are unique to one city alone.
As Chicago draws nearer to its mayoral runoff on April 4, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are navigating many of the same issues I confronted in New Orleans two decades ago, and many of the same issues facing the hundreds of communities, large and small, that we serve in the Urban League movement.
