Mayor Lori Lightfoot's expected re-election bid is more likely to go to a runoff with more candidates in the race.
Businessman Willie Wilson is expected to announce Monday that he will run for Chicago mayor in the 2023 election, adding a second declared candidate to a growing field of potential challengers to Mayor Lori Lightfoot, sources told the Tribune.
In the first round of voting in 2019, Lightfoot emerged first from a 14 candidate field with less than 20% of the vote, much of it from white wards on the lakefront. This time, Lightfoot’s coalition is expected to rely more heavily on Black voters, but Wilson could cut into her support. As a younger man, Wilson worked his way up the fast food world by mopping floors and flipping burgers at McDonald’s. He later developed a friendship with legendary McDonald’s chief Ray Kroc and ran several franchises.
In response, Wilson denied wanting the money in cash and said the city didn’t get back to him about his proposal. Although he has run for mayor, president and senator, Wilson has never won elected office. He’s also never been appointed to any high-level government posts, two drawbacks that he will need to address.
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