With Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel Chris Welch on hand, Henyard was sworn in Saturday as the first female mayor and, at 37, the youngest mayor in Dolton s 128-year history. I will say I am thrilled, I am overjoyed, Henyard said in an interview on Friday, noting that her roots in civic engagement go back more than a decade.
Henyard said she attended a block party when she was 19 and heard the neighborhood wasn t getting anywhere with a maintenance request to the village. Residents were asking me to be their spokesperson, Henyard said. I went to my first board meeting, and I demanded they trim that tree.
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