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Brandon Johnson was elected the mayor of Chicago in the 2023 mayoral election, and was sworn-in as Chicago’s 57th mayor on May 15, 2023.
Johnson was described as a “progressive” and a favored “candidate of the left.” Some critics called him Lori Lightfoot on steroids. His campaign emphasized a budget that proposes raising $1 billion in new revenues, funding and resources for public schools, a public safety platform that includes efficiency audits and non-police responses to mental health emergencies, support for a real estate transfer tax to fund homelessness response and prevention. He proposed new or increased taxes on airlines, financial transactions, high-value real estate transfers, and hotels.
Amid polling showing crime and police relations as the leading issue, Johnson was the only primary candidate who did not express support for hiring more police officers. Instead Johnson supported an increase in the detective force from existing ranks, citywide youth hiring, reopening mental health centers, and investment in violence prevention as means to address ‘root causes of crime’, in line with perceived voter preferences for increased job training and economic opportunity instead of police force expansion.
Johnson is the first mayor to hail from the Chicago’s West Side since the tenure of Anton Cermak, who died in office in 1933.
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