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Fans Start A Campaign Urging Chance The Rapper To Run For Mayor Of Chicago

<p>http&colon;&sol;&sol;chicago&period;suntimes&period;com&sol;politics&sol;chance-the-mayor-website-aims-to-draft-rapper-to-challenge-rahm&sol;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is no secret that Chance The Rapper definitely puts on for the city of Chicago&period; Earlier this year he received tons of praise for his &dollar;1 million donation to Chicago Public Schools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now it looks like some fans are encouraging Chance to become the next major of Chicago in 2019&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;xxlmag&period;com&sol;news&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;campaign-urges-chance-the-rapper-run-mayor-chicago&sol;">XXL<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; on Chance’s 2015 track&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Somewhere In Paradise&comma;” he rapped&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They say I’m saving my city&comma; say I’m stayin’ for good&sol;They screamin’ Chano for mayor&comma; I’m thinkin’ maybe I should&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All of which has led to his fans starting the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Chanco For Mayor&comma;” campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the official <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;chano4mayor&period;com&sol;">website<&sol;a><&sol;em> it reads&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Rahm Emanuel has been in office since 2011&period; In that time we’ve seen the closure of 50 public schools&comma; the largest in history&period; The city shut down 6 of its 12 mental health clinics&period; The Department of Justice found a pattern of civil rights violations by the Chicago Police Department&comma; including but not limited to the murder of Laquan McDonald&period; It’s time for change&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bea Malsky&comma; who is involved with the website talked to <em>The Chicago-Sun Times<&sol;em> on why Chance would be a great mayor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We would be very happy if he ran&period; We would be very happy if he’d become more politically involved and he endorsed a candidate who stands up for the same things that he stands up for in his music&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Malsky noted that she and three of her friends have been working on the website weeks prior to his &dollar;1 million public school donation&comma; 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