Vallas in a sentence

Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas speaks at a Women for Vallas luncheon Feb. 7 at Gibsons Italia in Chicago.

Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas speaks to supporters during a Young Professionals for Vallas rally on March 25, 2023, at Joy District in River North.

After none of the nine candidates reached 50% of the vote, the two leading candidates, Vallas and Johnson, headed to a runoff election.

A good sign for Vallas: The top early voting sites are Mt. Greenwood Park in the 19th Ward, followed by Roden Library in the 41st Ward.

Asked when he last rode the CTA, Vallas replied that he had that day, to the Cubs game.

At a forum in December, three candidates — Paul Vallas, Ja’Mal Green and 6th Ward Ald.

A win for Vallas would have meant stricter policing methods and a more fiscal approach to the city's declining education rates.

Burnett stuck with Lightfoot in round one of the mayoral sweepstakes, then backed Paul Vallas in the April 4 runoff.

Durbin tried to shake off accusations that Vallas is secretly a Republican.

Ed Rendell, a Democrat who was governor of Pennsylvania for much of that time, said he believed that Mr. Vallas did a good job under trying conditions, even though not all of his ideas worked.

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas has made CTA safety a focus of his remarks about public transit, accusing the agency of being “mismanaged” and saying he would “clean house” if elected.

Former Governor Pat Quinn, in endorsing Vallas, raised concerns about ComEd and a new city agreement as the corruption trial of some former executives plays out in Federal Court.

He must be held accountable,” Vallas said.

In Philadelphia, 45 charters had opened in the five years before Vallas’ 2002 arrival, public records show.

In Tuesday’s mayoral runoff election, Johnson — an underdog candidate — narrowly defeated front-runner Paul Vallas, a former Chicago Public Schools CEO and a fixture at City Hall decades ago during the Mayor Richard M. Daley era.

I think his comments are absolutely irresponsible period, that's it, period, they're absolutely irresponsible and they have no place in this campaign, period," Vallas said.

Johnson ended up winning the race, but we do know that much of the Black establishment had backed Vallas.

Johnson will rally voters with Bernie Sanders while Vallas was getting endorsed by Latino faith leaders.

Meanwhile, his opponent Paul Vallas denied he had said police were handcuffed and said he wants to restore proactive policing.

On Friday, Johnson, a Cook County commissioner, released a statement saying he’d paid off the debt and attacking rival Paul Vallas.