Seventeen people applied to replace soon-to-be former Ald. Michele Smith on the Chicago City Council and represent the city’s 43rd Ward, including Timmy Knudsen, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s handpicked chair of the city’s Zoning Board, the mayor’s office announced late Friday.
The decision by the Lincoln Park alderperson gives Mayor Lori Lightfoot the rare chance for a third appointment to the Council. Lightfoot already has replaced Patrick Daley Thompson, forced to resign after a federal conviction, and Michael Scott Jr., who left for a private sector job.
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About 63 percent of the people who made appointments at the United Center mass vaccination site lived outside Chicago. About 75 percent of the non-Chicagoans who signed up to get shots were either white or Asian American, public health officials said. (Scott Olson/Getty Images; Chris Sweda - Pool via Getty Images. Patch composite.)
CHICAGO, IL Illinois, we have a fakequity problem in the governor s office.
The term fakequity as in fake equity was coined by an astute observer of Gov. J.B. Pritzker s pandemic policies, which have repeatedly failed to deliver on promises of coronavirus testing and vaccinations in Black and Latino communities suffering the worst COVID-19 consequences.