Early polling and surveys show her needing to fight to make it into the knockout round, while Mr. Garcia, who vows to unite the city, appears to be the front-runner. Her other chief rivals include Mr. Vallas, who has made public safety central to his campaign, and Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner with strong backing from the teachers union.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.