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Brandon Johnson (Democratic) has been Mayor of Chicago since 15 May 2023. Unemployment rate: 6.0% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 2.3 percentage points higher than when Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023; Illinois's moved +0.5 percentage points over the same months. On the fall in violent crime Chicago is 20th of the 106 cities, on the fall in unemployment 113th of 117. Over Lori Lightfoot's tenure, 2019 to 2023, the unemployment rate moved −0.1 percentage points. Since day zero typical rent climbed 5.5% a year, 19.9% in all.

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