Chicago Violence Increase after Election

In the past, I wrote an article on the election of the New Mayor in Chicago in 2019. Here’s what happened in Chicago since she was elected.

2021 Shooting Incidents – 3,561 – up 63% over 2019  —-  Expressway Shootings – 51 in 2019, 130 in 2020 – 273 in 2021 (Police took over 12,000 illegal guns off the street in 2021 alone)  —-  Carjackings – 1,836 in 2021 – a 204% increase over 2019. A Mayor in Chicago servers 4 year terms. An election for Mayor of Chicago is scheduled to be held on February 28, 2023. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, a runoff election will be held .

CHICAGO’S 8 MAYORS SINCE 1976

— I) Richard J. Daley (1955 – 1976) – Served 21 years from 1955 until his death on December 20, 1976 — H) Michael Bilandic (1976 – 1979) – Appointed by the Chicago City Council after the death of Daley. — G) Jane Byrne (1979 – 1983) – Chicago’s first female mayor. — F) Harold Washington (1983 – 1987) – Chicago’s first African-American mayor died only 6 months into his second term. — E) David Orr (1987) – Vice Mayor and 49th Ward alderman Orr became acting mayor for eight days. Then the City Council elected a permanent replacement. — D) Eugene Sawyer (1987 – 1989) Appointed by City Council to finish out Washington’s 2nd term. — C) Richard M. Daley (1989-2011) After 22 years in office, he surpassed his father to become Chicago’s longest serving mayor. — B) Rahm Emanuel (2011 – 2019) Previously was the White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010, and a member of the United States House of Representative from Illinois between 2003 & 2009. — A) Lori Lightfoot (2019 to present) – She becomes the 1st Black Female, and Openly Gay person to hold the office. 

This Editors Political Insight: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gets a kiss from her wife Amy Eshleman (Tall gay government worker on the left).

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