<span style="color: #222222;">Chicago has created history by electing an African-American woman as its mayor for the first time. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Lori Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal prosecutor and practicing lawyer who has never before held elected office, won the city's mayoral race by a huge margin. She will also be Chicago's first openly gay mayor. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Lightfoot's primary proposals include increasing access to affordable housing, creating an office of public safety to reduce crime and reform policing, and pushing through a real estate transfer tax to help combat homelessness. She also backs abolishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Lightfoot will take over office from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who previously served as chief of staff under former President Barack Obama.</span>