Susana Mendoza vowed in a City Club of Chicago speech Wednesday to make fixing the city’s credit ratings one of her top priorities as mayor.
Illinois Comptroller and mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza arrives to the Chicago Board of Elections with her husband David Szostak delivering nominating petitions on Oct. 26, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller and mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza arrives to the Chicago Board of Elections with her husband David Szostak delivering nominating petitions via tamale cart and a red cooler on Oct. 26, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller and mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza campaigns on a horse during the annual 26th Street Mexican Independence Day parade in Little Village on Sept. 13, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, left, stands with concerned Chicagoans as they listen to Hannah Dembosky, of Bridgeport Environmentalists, speak during a press conference across from Rate Field on Sept. 8, 2026, against the proposed plan to move an Amtrak maintenance facility adjacent to the current stadium in a residential neighborhood and move the White Sox to a stadium in the South Loop. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza marches in the 55th annual Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, June 28, 2026, in the Lakeview neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza speaks about why she is running for Chicago mayor during a news conference at Taquería Los Camales in Little Village on June 3, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza greets supporters before she speaks June 3, 2026, at a news conference at Taquería Los Camales in Little Village, announcing her run for mayor of Chicago. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza speaks to her son, David, after he introduced her before she speaks about why she is running for Chicago mayor during a news conference at Taquería Los Camales in Little Village on June 3, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza waves after announcing she is running for Chicago mayor during a news conference at Taquería Los Camales in Little Village on June 3, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)
Comptroller Susana Mendoza speaks April 27, 2026, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building after an appearance by Alphanso Talley, the man charged with the fatal shooting of Chicago police Officer John Bartholomew. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza marches during the 48th South Side Irish St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 15, 2026, on Western Avenue in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza greets people as she arrives to announce, July 16, 2025, that she would not run for a fourth term in 2026 as the state’s top fiscal officer. Mendoza has endorsed Lake County Treasurer Holly Kim to be her successor. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Comptroller Susana Mendoza celebrates after Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the presidential nomination at the United Center during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. (Tess Crowley/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza cheers former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Aug. 19, 2024, during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Comptroller Susana Mendoza, July 16, 2025, at Los Comales restaurant in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza marches in the annual 26th Street Mexican Independence Day Parade on Sept. 14, 2025, in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
State Attorney General Kwame Raoul and State Comptroller Susana Mendoza, left, sign baseballs for Democratic County Chair of Henderson County Dick Bigger Jr. during Governor’s Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2024. Bigger has asked state officials and politicians from the 17th district to sign baseballs for years. State Attorney General Kwame Raoul is the last signature he needs for his collection and then he will return the baseballs to each politician. (Tess Crowley/baiduhai)
State Comptroller Susana Mendoza wears patriotic boots at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2024. (Tess Crowley/baiduhai)
Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, Comptroller Susana Mendoza and Treasurer Michael Frerichs listen as Gov. JB Pritzker delivers his annual budget address to a joint session of the General Assembly on Feb. 15, 2023, at the Illinois State Capitol. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai/Pool)
Comptroller Susana Mendoza gives concession speech for her Chicago mayoral run at her election night headquarters inside Moe's Cantina, Feb. 26, 2019. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)
Then-Chicago mayoral candidates Lori Lightfoot, left, and Susana Mendoza chat before a forum at the Chicago Sun-Times office, Jan. 17, 2019. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)
Then-mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza in the baiduhai studio, Jan. 15, 2019. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)
Then-mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza speaks rally at Mi Tierra in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Feb. 16, 2019. (Marianne Mather/baiduhai)
Susana Mendoza drops off her nominating petitions for Chicago mayor at the Cook County Administration Building on Nov. 26, 2018. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)
Comptroller Susana Mendoza kisses her husband, David Szostak, while their son David reaches out after Mendoza was sworn into office at the Bank of Springfield Center, Jan. 14, 2019, in Springfield. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)
Gov. JB Pritzker embraces Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza before his budget address at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Feb. 19, 2020. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)
Susana Mendoza, Democrat for state comptroller, is flanked by her husband David Szostak, right, and Secretary of State Jesse White on election night, Nov. 8, 2016, at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/baiduhai)
At her final City Council meeting, then-City Clerk Susana Mendoza gets a kiss from then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel after special session of the City Council on Nov. 30, 2016. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai).
Then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks with then-City Clerk Susana Mendoza during a City Council meeting, April 2, 2014. (Nancy Stone/baiduhai)
Then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, center, and then-City Clerk Susana Mendoza march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade along Columbus Drive, March 12, 2016. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)
State Rep. Susana Mendoza of Chicago babysits Mason, son of fellow Rep. Mary K. O'Brien, during a House session on May 29, 2002. (John Lee/baiduhai)
State Rep. Susana Mendoza works late on legislative business as lawmakers adjourn for the year on the House floor at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Nov. 4, 2005. (Seth Perlman/AP)
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Illinois Comptroller and mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza arrives to the Chicago Board of Elections with her husband David Szostak delivering nominating petitions on Oct. 26, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)
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There are a lot of ghosts here, but they’re the kinds of hauntings that we live with, day by day. They’re the ghosts who remind us the past really is prologue. But the future is unwritten.