Although the final election results will not be officially certified for two weeks, activist Ronnie Mosley declared victory in the 21st Ward aldermanic race
The victory of community organizer Ronnie Mosley, 31, was secured on Monday with the concession of retired firefighter Cornell Dantzler, who concluded the ballots that could still arrive in the mail would not be enough to erase Mosley’s lead.
Timmy Knudsen the first openly gay person to represent the Lincoln Park ward, and one of the City Council’s youngest members thanked 43rd Ward voters ‘for turning out in historic numbers.’
When she’s sworn in next month, Manaa-Hoppenworth will join 11th Ward Ald. Nicole Lee as the only Asian Americans on the Council. “I’m just thinking of my dad never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined we’d get here,” Manaa-Hoppenworth told the Sun-Times earlier this week.