Mayoral candidates rally voters, volunteers in Sunday sprint to the finish
The long, grueling but historic race for mayor entered its final stretch Sunday in Chicago, where two women promising to break barriers clearly had the end in their sights.
Toni Preckwinkle asked churchgoers to keep me in your prayers. And Lori Lightfoot urged her supporters to keep your foot on the gas.
No matter who wins Tuesdays runoff election, Chicagoans are poised to send a black woman to the mayors office for the first time in its history. But even if the history is certain, the history maker is not. So Preckwinkle and Lightfoot spent the last Sunday of the campaign roaming the city for last-minute votes.
Preckwinkles day began at five churches on the West and South sides, where the Cook County Board president sought support at the polls and from the divine.
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