Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: Elect me, I'm the black one

Identity politics have taken center stage in the final days of the Chicago Mayoral race and for incumbent Lori Lightfoot that meant playing the race card. With current polling showing Lightfoot trailing Democratic rival Paul Vallas in a congested field, likely to force a runoff following the February 28 election, the first-term mayor stoked racial tension at a Saturday rally. Calling out Vallas and Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), the only white and Hispanic candidates in the running respectively, Lightfoot urged the predominantly black populous of Chicago’s South Side to...