Brandon Johnson's uphill battle to unite Chicago and tackle its challenges.
Brandon Johnson, one of America's most progressive big-city mayors in generations, won the Chicago mayoral race with 51.7% of the vote. He plans to focus on issues where there's room for consensus, such as doubling the amount of youth workers, finalizing a "Treatment Not Trauma" plan, and passing "Bring Chicago Home," a plan to hike the real estate transfer tax on properties above $1 million to fund anti-homelessness initiatives. Johnson also plans to commission a "cumulative impact study" to rebuild a fully staffed Department of Environment to unite the city around the theme of "environmental justice." However, he faces the challenge of uniting a deeply split electorate and a fractious City Council.