CHICAGO — The mayoral victory on Tuesday of Brandon Johnson, a as soon as little-known progressive and former instructor, over a extra reasonable veteran of this metropolis’s burly political realm injected confidence within the Democratic Celebration’s most liberal wing — and should have pointed a method ahead for the social gathering on the fraught challenge of crime.
Mr. Johnson, 47, walked again a few of his most progressive positions, together with funds cuts to Chicago’s police pressure. However he by no means disavowed the place that, in…
