As the departure of Ald. Walter Burnett leaves Mayor Brandon Johnson with the challenge of picking his third Zoning Committee chair, the City Council’s Black and Latino caucuses have already begun ...

Chicago To Get Its First Black Female Mayor As Candidates Head To Runoff Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle, both African-American women, got the most votes out of 14 candidates in Chicago's ...

Chicago has had a large African American population for much of its history, but only two of the city’s 55 mayors have been black: Harold Washington from 1983 to 1987 and Eugene Sawyer from 1987 ...

Chicago mayor elect Lori Lightfoot speaks during the election night party in Chicago, Illinois on April 2, 2019. - In a historic first, a gay African American woman was elected mayor of America's ...

CHICAGO — Chicago became the largest American city ever to elect a black woman as its mayor as voters on Tuesday chose Lori Lightfoot, a former prosecutor, to replace Rahm Emanuel. When she ...

The winner will become Chicago's first black woman mayor, and will make Chicago the largest U.S. city to be led by one. If Lightfoot prevails, she will also be the city's first out LGBT mayor.

With all 50 Chicago aldermen and former mayors Rahm Emanuel and Richard M. Daley behind her, the 56-year-old former federal prosecutor became the city’s first black woman and openly gay mayor.

Windy City Honors First Black Mayor This month, Chicago is paying tribute to the city's first black mayor, Harold Washington. Washington died during his second term in office 20 years ago.

The city’s first Black mayor, Harold Washington, issued more vetoes than all modern Chicago mayors combined. His first veto came just 12 days after his inauguration, and he would proceed to ink ...

Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot was elected Chicago mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first black woman and first openly gay person to lead the nation's third-largest city.