Chicago Megathread: With CTU on strike, Lightfoot lays out her budget

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As Mr. Illini has said earlier the neighborhoods split tremendously in this election. Here's the Tribune map of winners by ward.



Lightfoot carried the progressives on the northern Lakefront, and she was second to Daley in the wealthy Loop, Gold Coast and white ethnic wards. Lightfoot was also second to Preckwinkle along the South Shore and Hyde Park.

Preckwinkle carried the wards of her traditional base in the Near South, South Shore and Hyde Park, and she was second to Wilson throughout the black wards. Preckwinkle also took second to Lightfoot on the Lakefront.

The Latinx wards were split by Mendoza and Chico with Daley in third. Joyce carried the machine wards on the Southwest Side. Neither Lightfoot nor Preckwinkle performed particularly well here. These wards will probably be critical in determining the next mayor in the runoff.

An additional thought: Joyce won the wards that I would have expected to go for Daley. My guess is that without Joyce in the race, Daley would have picked up a good chunk of those votes, and probably would have made the runoff. Then again, those Joyce wards are loaded with police, firefighters and other city workers. They may have felt Daley would be too beholden to business and not enough to their interests, and needed to park their votes somewhere - that happened to be Joyce.

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Should I be shocked looking at that map how many Wards Wilson carried?

Not by much. He's got money and a lot of support with the black church (those are all black wards)

He also has contacts across the political spectrum and in business as well as in the churches. I've worked with him on a task force and he understands the needs of the black community, but lacks the message to make inroads in other parts of the city.