Lightfoot wins Chicago mayor race; pledges end to corruption

Mayoral Candidate Toni Preckwinkle at the 22nd precinct polling station, Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019.(James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) (James Foster/)Chicago • Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot easily won the Chicago mayor’s race Tuesday, earning support from every part of the city to defeat a longtime political insider and become the first black woman and openly gay person to lead the nation’s third-largest city.Lightfoot, who had never been elected to public office,