If they elect Rahm, they deserve what they get!
Any chance of a viable conservative candidate?
Hard to say, Chicago has been so dominated by the Daley machine, it is impossible to say which way the voters would go. You have generations that have voted only Democrat, Usually a Republican candidate is some schlub who doesn’t have a political carreer to worry about. With the current GOP leadership in Springfield, it’s gonna take a “palace coup” to even try to do anything differently.
I know people who live in Chicago who vote solidly Republican in non-local elections, but vote Democrat in local ones, because they assume that those in power knows how they vote and because they like having continued city services (like having their garbage collected).