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When she’s sworn in next month, Manaa-Hoppenworth will join 11th Ward Ald. Nicole Lee as the only Asian Americans on the Council. “I’m just thinking of my dad — never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined we’d get here,” Manaa-Hoppenworth told the Sun-Times earlier this week.

Candidates declared victory in at least three of those tight contests, but no one was conceding defeat with thousands of outstanding mail ballots.

Johnson won 29 of 50 wards, including a clean sweep of majority African-American wards. He won six Hispanic majority wards to Vallas’ nine. Johnson sealed the deal along the progressive-minded north lakefront and the hipster Milwaukee Avenue corridor.

What I’ve heard repeatedly is that, much like teachers, police officers are being asked to do their job and someone else’s job,” the mayor-elect told the Sun-Times.

PHILADELPHIA — The short-term rental industry, embodied by Airbnb, proved a polarizing subject at a Wednesday City Council hearing. Both hosts and neighborhood groups testified passionately, if at cross purposes, about the industry’s effect on Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.

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Meanwhile in the 24th Ward, Monique Scott declared victory Tuesday night less than a year after she was appointed to the role after her brother stepped down from the City Council.

With Ald. Nicole Lee’s victory and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth apparently on track to win in the 48th Ward on the North Side, the number of Asian American City Council members could grow to two.

CHICAGO — After a lengthy and highly charged election season, Chicago voters have gone to the polls to choose between Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas for mayor.

More than a quarter of the seats in Chicago’s City Council will be determined through runoff elections on Tuesday. Explore our coverage, get to know the candidates and understand why it matters.