This election is not about crime or even about race. It is about Chicagoans seeing a glimmer of hope that they might be able to take back a city that has been steadily decimated by the forces of privatization and gutted by the greed of developers. But while Paul Vallas might seem like the logical and white expression of those disastrous trends, he is in fact only taking up the legacy of two Black history-making figures: Barack Obama and Lori Lightfoot.
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