Lori Lightfoot is a candidate for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 elections. She got the top vote-getter in the first round of the election on 27 February 2019. The runoff election between Lori Lightfoot and Preckwinkle is scheduled to be held on 2 April 2019.
Lori Lightfoot is a candidate for Mayor of Chicago. She is the first openly lesbian candidate in the history of Chicago. She is also a first-time candidate for public office in the 2019 elections. She won the runoff election on April 2, 2019, becoming mayor-elect of Chicago. She won more than 73% of the overall vote in the runoff, winning in all 50 wards of the city. She won all but 20 of the city's 2,069 voting precincts. On May 20, 2019, she officially took office as Mayor of Chicago after being sworn in by Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois at the Wintrust Arena.
Lori Lightfoot was born on 4 August 1962 in Massillon, Ohio, US. She is an American nationality and her ethnicity is African-American. She is a graduate of Washington High School in Massillon. She working seven jobs to afford her education to receive her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. She also served as a clerk for the Michigan Supreme Court and she graduated from law school.
Lori Lightfoot is the daughter of a factory worker and janitor father and a healthcare aide and school board member mother.
Lori Lightfoot is married to Amy Eshleman with a 10-year-old daughter.