This will be Mendoza's second run for the fifth floor of City Hall. She also ran in 2019, entering the race a couple of months after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced he was not seeking a third term. At the time, Mendoza had just been re-elected as state comptroller. She came in fifth in a wide field.
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.