Preckwinkle on Her Plan for the City

For the second time in Chicago history we're heading to a runoff. The two candidates in the running are Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle, both African-American women.

Among the many things that need to change here in the city, Preckwinkle says she has two priorities: sustainability of our health care system and criminal justice reform.

Preckwinkle says she is running to make a different for the youth in the city. She was a history teacher at a Chicago Public School and she wants resources and the focus of leaders to go straight to those institutions.

Preckwinkle was also a former alderman and that experience, she says, has helped her realize what communities need.

She adds the mayor's office needs to fight the fight of making sure working class families live in a city that works for them. As for the Chicago Police Department, Preckwinkle says Chicago has to stop relying solely on police officers to serve as social workers to health care providers and instead focus on understanding the public health factors we're missing.

Preckwinkle and Lightfoot will faceoff April 2nd.

02/27/19 7:59AM