With five weeks to go until Election Day, the Chicago mayoral race is continuing to heat up, with one of the frontrunners hitting the airwaves with ads for the first time and several others ratcheting up their criticisms of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Vallas and other opponents of Lightfoot’s have called for ethics probes to continue in the case.
Brandon Johnson, the Cook County Board Commissioner in the race, is defending a new plan he released to help address financial shortfalls in the city. He also proposed to push for a “Metra surcharge” in the Illinois General Assembly, which he says would generate $40 million from suburban communities that benefit from the train system. He also proposed nearly $100 million in payments from airlines to compensate the city for pollution.
While Johnson characterized the proposals as a needed dose of “truth” from city officials, Vallas one of several candidates who criticized the tax increases.
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