Openly Gay Black Woman Overwhelmingly Wins Chicago Mayoral Race: 'A Movement for Change'
Lori Lightfoot at an election-night party in Chicago on April 2, 2019.Photo: Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS/GettyLori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor-turned-corporate lawyer and police reformer, overwhelmingly won Chicago’s mayoral race on Tuesday, becoming one of several firsts for the country’s third-largest city.Lightfoot, a 56-year-old first-time candidate for office, will be Chicago’s first black female mayor and its first openly gay mayor as well as its first mayor in nearly 100 years who wasn’t born in Chicago....