{"id":8046,"date":"2015-02-24T19:59:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2015-02-24T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T02:31:13","slug":"fioretti-takes-break-from-campaigning-for-pastrami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/fioretti-takes-break-from-campaigning-for-pastrami\/","title":{"rendered":"Fioretti takes break from campaigning for pastrami"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stephanie Choporis and Elizabeth Elving<\/p>\n

Alderman Bob Fioretti began his morning as many Chicagoans did- -by heading to the polls. He cast his ballot at his own polling place, an assisted-living facility at 1504 W. Van Buren, alongside fiancee Nicki Pecori. He remained\u00a0optimistic about his own election day prospects, in spite of a recent Chicago Tribune poll giving him only 7 percent <\/a>of the vote. “I think we are going to be in the run-off,” he said. “I think it looks pretty good,” he said.<\/p>\n

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The mayoral candidate spent the morning visiting precincts around the Northwest Side, braving the low temperatures that \u00a0lowered voter turnout <\/a>throughout the day.<\/p>\n

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Fioretti and Nicki Pecori cast their votes in a photo tweeted by Progress Illinois.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For lunch he went to Manny’s Deli in University Village on the Near West Side. \u00a0He was joined at the deli by some of his supporters, as well as fellow Alderman Scott Waguespack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I walked in there was a lot of people here and a lot of people said hi and a lot of very encouraging signs,\u201d Fioretti \u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Fioretti ordered “the usual” – a big pastrami sandwich, potato pancake, matzo ball soup, and a carton of milk–and settled in for two hours.<\/p>\n

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Bob Fioretti speaks to a patron at Manny’s Deli. (Stephanie Choporis\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He wasn’t the only mayoral candidate at Manny’s this afternoon.\u00a0His\u00a0opponent, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, was seen posing for pictures with people at the deli. But Fioretti did not seem so concerned with posing with patrons as he did shaking their hands and speaking with them.<\/p>\n

“I’m here often,” Fioretti said, “there was another candidate in here. And a couple people said that was the first time he’d ever been here.”<\/p>\n