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While many employers in New York City and beyond were shutting their doors, laying off workers, and severely cutting operations when the pandemic hit last year, others kept providing essential services. That latter group included New York City government, the country’s eighth-largest employer. And while many thousands of city workers shifted to remote work, most did not.
Essential city operations like sanitation, water, schools, fire and police departments, food delivery, and more not only had to continue operations through the pandemic, but three quarters of the city’s roughly 400,000 employees never stopped working in-person. It is unclear how many tens of thousands of city workers contracted COVID-19 and how many hundreds died of the virus among the city’s larger toll of more than 33,500 confirmed or probable covid deaths.
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Annette Nance-Holt will make history as she takes the helm of Chicago’s Fire Department. Nance-Holt was voted to become the first Black woman to lead the city’s fire department by the Chicago City Council on Wednesday (July 7). This marks the first time a woman and a Black woman will lead the fire department in its 162-year history.
“It’s official,” Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot tweeted after the council voted Nance-Holt in. “Annette Nance-Holt has made Chicago history by becoming the first Black woman to serve as Chicago Fire Department commissioner,” the tweet added.
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Annette Nance-Holt named 1st Black woman leader of Chicago Fire Department
Nance-Holt is the first woman and woman of color to lead the department in its 162-year history
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A Black woman is making history in Chicago in her new role as the head of the city’s fire department.
After more than 30 years of experience with the Chicago Fire Department,
Annette Nance-Holt reached a historic milestone by becoming the first woman and woman of color to lead the department in its 162-year history, according to the City of Chicago.
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