also, i just realized that neither lightfoot nor preckwinkle were born and/or raised in chicago/chicagoland.
whoever wins will be the first non-born and/or raised chicagoan to be elected* mayor of chicago since Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne back in 1905.
the whole non-native angle shouldn't be a big deal, but in a city like chicago it is. and it's cool that either way we'll have outgrown one of our more obnoxious provincial leanings in an important way. rahm, with his wilmette childhood, was like a test run for this.
(*) eugene sawyer and frank corr were both born and raised elsewhere, but neither of them were ever elected mayor, they were appointed by city council to serve out others' mayoral terms.
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