The mayoral frontrunner has support from lakefront liberals and law-and-order voters — blocs that traditionally hold each other in disdain.

Referendum questions to raise property taxes in order to modernize schools or build libraries are an increasingly tough sell in high-tax Illinois. Ratcheting up the pressure, Hinsdale’s school board members at their December meeting voted to cut nine sports at both schools including football, wrestling, cheerleading and water polo, along with marching band and several other extracurricular activities.

Comment: Identity politics at the max — even when it’s one black woman vs. another.