With an ambitious first term completed, Mayor Justin Bibb now looks ahead to another four years after handily securing Tuesday's mayoral race.

"The best is yet to come," Bibb told supporters during his victory speech.

When he first set out on the campaign trail in 2021, Bibb, the city's first millennial mayor, made lofty promises to voters; reduce violent crime across the city, reimagine the two-waterfront Downtown , bring development and jobs to the historically redlined Southeast Side , all while maintaining basic city services and modernizing City Hall.

Bibb dealt with unforeseen obstacles he now has to continue to manage, including the Cleveland Browns' decision to move out of the city and unprecedented federal funding cuts from President Donald Trump's administration.

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