Chicago Mayoral Debate

2/6/23

Another successful mayoral debate for the books! LWVIL and LWV Chicago partnered with ABC7 and Univision to host all nine Chicago mayoral candidates on January 19.

For nearly three decades, LWVIL has partnered with ABC7 to hold televised debates for major mayoral, gubernatorial and congressional races.

The debates follow LWVIL standards and LWVIL collaborates in crafting candidate invitations, establishing ground rules, creating candidate questions, and assisting in the studio with timing.

The January 19 mayoral debate was live streamed by both ABC7 and Univision (with simultaneous translation) on their various media platforms. Both stations also broadcast the debate on Sunday, January 22: UNIMAS (WXFT-TV) at 4:00 pm, and ABC 7.1 at 10:30 pm. C-SPAN will air the debate in the near future at a time to be announced.