{"id":104942,"date":"2026-06-04T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/?p=104942"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:04:37","slug":"raymond-lopez-drops-out-of-the-mayoral-election-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/?p=104942","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Lopez Drops Out of the Mayoral Election Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ald. Lopez Drops Out<\/h3>\n

Chicago\u2019s mayoral election is just a couple of months away. The election is set for February 2023. The current mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has a lot of challengers who wish to take office, but one candidate has decided to drop out, Raymond Lopez, a Southwest Side Alderman. He announced that instead, he seeks to be re-elected to the City Council.<\/p>\n

Lopez is currently in his second term and is representing Back of the Yards, West Englewood, and Brighton Park. He frequently criticizes Lightfoot and her actions.<\/p>\n

Lopez has been very active during his campaign, visiting numerous neighborhoods all throughout the city. The bad thing is even though he has been very active, he has not been able to raise enough money.<\/p>\n

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Aldermen very rarely run for the city\u2019s top job because they can\u2019t run for re-election and run for mayor. But two aldermen have decided to run against Lightfoot: Sophia King and Roderick Sawyer.<\/p>\n

Lopez announced that his decision to not run for mayor is for the good of the city. He also mentions that a \u201ccrowded field\u201d only will play in favor of the mayor. \u201cLightfoot must be defeated to save Chicago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lopez at News Conference<\/h3>\n

Lopez declined to endorse any other candidate at a news conference on Monday. He was also asked a question of a new contender, U.S Rep. Jesus \u201cChuy\u201d Garcia, he responded \u201cWe can\u2019t have her standing up to someone who\u2019s an extremist in a potential primary and saying, \u2018Look, I\u2019m the normal one in the race.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t choose to define what he means by extremist. Lopez has previously accused Lightfoot of being petty, negative, and vindictive. With Lopez now out, Lightfoot has one less contender and voters have one less option.<\/p>\n

Written by Gabriel Salgado<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

ABC7 Eyewitness News:<\/span>\u00a0Chicago mayoral campaigns line up to turn in nominating petitions; Alderman Lopez drops out<\/p>\n

Chicago Tribune:<\/strong> Ald. Raymond Lopez bows out of mayor race, will seek reelection to City Council<\/p>\n

FOX32 Chicago:<\/strong> Ald. Raymond Lopez pulls out of mayoral race, seeks reelection to 15th Ward<\/p>\n

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Inset Image Courtesy of vagueonthehow Flickr Page \u2013 Creative Commons License<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of HaSt (Wikimeda CC0) Ald. Lopez Drops Out Chicago\u2019s mayoral election is just a couple of months away. The election is set for February 2023. The current mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has a lot of challengers who wish to take office, but one candidate has decided to drop out, Raymond Lopez, a Southwest Side Alderman. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}