CHICAGO—Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot’s resounding victory was a clear call for change at City Hall and a historic repudiation of the old-style, insider politics that have long defined the nation’s third-largest city. It also was part of the city’s government moving further to the left.
Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor who'd never been elected to public office, defeated Cook County Board President and longtime City Council member Toni Preckwinkle on April 2 with backing from voters across the city. Late results showed Lightfoot, 56, winning every one of the city’s 50 wards.
