Chicago Voters School Rahm Emanuel
Voters will choose on April 7 between a blunt, sometimes abrasive first-term incumbent and a populist who says he speaks for the disenfranchised.
Residents cast their votes at a polling place on election day February 24, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago voters usually get just one chance to express their preference for mayor because the incumbent almost always rolls to a big victory in February. Not this time.
With the city facing the prospect of insolvency and Mayor Rahm Emanuel failing to win a majority in Tuesday’s nonpartisan election, voters will choose on April 7 between a blunt, sometimes abrasive first-term incumbent and a populist who says he speaks for the disenfranchised.