Chicago elects Lori Lightfoot as first gay and first black female mayor in city’s history

Reason twenty-eight-billion and one why it's a bad idea to live in Chicago.

In a city weighed down by myriad problems—economic inequality, persistent gun violence in pockets of the city, $28 billion in unfunded pension obligations and endemic political corruption—Lightfoot made the case to voters that she was the outsider that Chicago needs to shake things up.

She is Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked successor.