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Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at her election night rally at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council in River North after conceding to Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at her election night rally at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council in River North after conceding to Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.

Ashlee Rezin

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at her election night rally at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council in River North after conceding to Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at her election night rally at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council in River North after conceding to Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.

Ashlee Rezin

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

Lightfoot out, Vallas and Johnson head to April 4 runoff

Reset analyzes the results of Chicago’s municipal election — from a historic mayor’s race to aldermanic races to police district councils.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at her election night rally at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council in River North after conceding to Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.

Ashlee Rezin
By Reset Team
   

Lori Lightfoot has become the first Chicago mayor in four decades lose a re-election bid for a second term.

Reset brings context and analysis to the results.

GUESTS: Jaime Dominguez, Northwestern University professor

Alden Loury, WBEZ data projects editor

Mariah Woelfel, WBEZ city politics reporter

Connie Mixon, professor of political science, director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University

Delmarie Cobb, political strategist

Patrick Smith, WBEZ criminal justice reporter

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