CHICAGO _ Chance the Rapper, who's become increasingly more involved in Chicago politics, on Tuesday threw his support behind a local activist with whom he says he shares a political vision for the city's future.
Chance, whose full name is Chancelor Bennet, said he was backing Amara Enyia, who is the director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce.
"I probably won't ever be running for mayor of this city but I believe that me and Amara share a vision of what Chicago should be," he said at a City Hall news conference.
Enyia ran in the 2015 campaign before dropping out and joining then-Ald. Bob Fioretti's team.
Chance the Rapper, the Chatham born-and-raised hip-hop artist turned philanthropist, has become an outspoken activist and civic leader in Chicago in recent years, calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's resignation, joining forces with #NoCopAcademy to oppose the West Side police training academy and purchasing the shuttered Chicagoist blog.
In a video released this week, Chance went undercover as a Lyft driver as part of the "Undercover Lyft" series, to support arts education programs at Chicago Public Schools.
His father Ken Bennett, a former Obama administration official, was at Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's recent announcement that she was running for Chicago mayor.
"This is not a flash in the pan. I'm here. I've been working with Amara for the past few weeks," Bennett said. "I'd like to consider myself a political strategist of sorts and, yeah, we're about to do this thing."
