election officials in Chicago to see the turnout at the first mayoral election is not increased since 1985, Richard M. Daley have his name on the ballot. Thirty-one percent of voters showed last time.
Chicago Title voters to the polls Tuesday are a rare encounter for Chicago printed on a ballot without the name of Daley.
The following paragraph"I felt good," Anthony Forbes, lifelong resident of Chicago said his departure in 1989, a vote in the apartment lobby area of the city Rogers Park, where Mr. Forbes said he has every election since Mayor Richard M. Daley's first victory. "I voted for Daley for so long. But it's not like I never had a choice."
For years, "King Richard" faced no serious challenges election at hand and she won the turnout has dropped. He served a year older than his father, Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976, died in office. In 2007, the last city election for mayor, the younger Mr. Daley won 70 percent of the vote - but only 31 percent of voters appeared to vote.
Other historical aspects of the election on Tuesday:
- For the first time in 64 years, the ballots are not acting mayor.
- None of the four leading candidates and is Irish Catholic, the family tree of every mayor Harold Washington in Chicago, except predecessor Daley died in office in 1987, said long-time political consultant Don Rose Chicago.
- Extraordinary charges facing the new mayor: a deficit of $ 654.8 million, a troubled school system, crime is concentrated in economically marginalized neighborhoods, and an obligation of approximately $ 600 million retirement.
"It is historic that a new mayor will be problems as the previous Daley could not understand or even eliminate - and probably has more to his decision to not run as anything else," says Rose .
All candidates able to Daley - the former White House chief Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago Board of Education President Gery Chico, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun and the Chicago City Clerk Miguel del Valle - was not taken to the contemporary critique of the mayor directly.
They talk about the budget problems of the city as a product of the recession, not mismanagement. They criticize easier targets such as Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis and Morgan Stanley, the financial services giant, which now controls the city parking meters, after an unpopular privatization deal.
The new field of candidates is to attract voter turnout, election officials predict. Last week, reported the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners (CBEC), that of the 1.4 million registered voters, 73,251 people have already cast their ballots early - about three times what he did in 2007.
In the last years of the reign of King Richard was only about 1 in 3 voters to the polls. This year, said Langdon Neal CCEL chairan he expected "more than 50 percent" of voters.
So who will win?
Mr. Emanuel leader election and has the largest bankroll, but his victory - at least his immediate victory - remains uncertain.
To win, Emanuel necessary majority. Many analysts here predict that a ballot crowded and the divisions between neighborhoods, no candidate obtains more than 50 percent of the vote, in which case a second round of the election on April 5 extended leave.
Emanuel opponents have openly stated they want a vote that critics more time to his campaign. For example, no later than Monday evening announced that Ms. Moseley-Braun a letter to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald asked him to investigate his allegations of electoral fraud.
Alderman Joe Moore, one of 50 municipal councils for re-election this year, predicted that Emanuel will be the top scorer? He added: "All candidates had more than enough time to express their opinions and viewpoints."
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