article_snippet.sent: The incumbent highlighted tough decisions The incumbent's made since succeeding former Mayor Richard M. Daley in 2011, but admitted that The incumbent management approach too often rubbed city residents the wrong way.
article_snippet.sent: The incumbent portrayed ’ Garcia as too inexperienced to handle the city's financial crunch.
article_snippet.sent: The mayor faces huge obstacles in The mayor second term, from fixing the worst-funded pension systems of any big US city to stemming stubborn violence and confronting labor unions that just spent millions trying to defeat The mayor.
article_snippet.sent: Chicago's four pension systems are about $20billion in debt, and the fund for Chicago Public Schools teachers is short about $7billion of what's needed to pay benefits as promised.
article_snippet.sent: If Chicago mayoral candidate Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia can't work a deal with labor unions or get the Illinois Legislature to approve relief, the city is on the hook for an additional $550million payment to the retirement accounts, bringing an additional $550million payment to the retirement accounts to about $1billion.