Mayor Brandon Johnson reports bigger fundraising numbers, but so do potential opponents

Mayor Brandon Johnson reports bigger fundraising numbers, but so do potential opponents

Mayor Brandon Johnson reported raising nearly $300,000 in the first three months of the year, a sizable chunk of which came from gambling interests that want Chicago to legalize sweepstakes machines, as well as some longtime friends and political allies. The mayor’s political haul means he has about $1.16 million in the bank at the near-halfway point of his first term in office, which is about how much ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot had at the same jun…