Lori Lightfoot makes history in Chicago

GAYLES.TV.- «Today we not only made history, but we have started a movement for change", has declared Lori Lightfoot (56) after winning the elections with an 73,8% of the votes. This lawyer of 56 years now faces the problems that the city of Chicago: high rates of crime, police brutality, endemic corruption, deficit in finance and lack of resources for public education. These are the challenges that the first black and lesbian mayor of the city of skyscrapers must take on.

Lightfoot he could not hide the tears in his speech when together with his wife Amy Eshleman And your daughter Vivian, eleven years old. It was the first time I presented them at a public event. Lightfoot He said that his victory was proof that Chicago it is "a city where it does not matter who you love, as long as you do it with your heart.

«I know who I am. I have a very clear sense of my possibilities. I have a great wife and daughter, and a very close circle of friends, who love me, support me and I know they will not hesitate to criticize me«Declared Lightfoot. And he added «we have received a mandate to make a profound change, and we have the possibility to do big and bold things«.

«We are facing powerful interests«He said in his victory speech at a hotel in Chicago. "When we started our campaign, nobody trusted our possibilities. Now, see where we have arrived«Added the elected mayor, who promised to put«the interests of all the inhabitants of the city above the interests of a few privileged«.