JUST IN: Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10th Ward) announced that she will not run for re-election to represent the Southeast Side. She becomes the fifth City Council committee chair to announce they will not run for re-election.
The former chair of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus, Sadlowski Garza helped push through a measure that requires most large employers to give their workers two-weeks notice of their schedules in an effort to reduce the stress caused by unpredictable shift work. Sadlowski Garza also championed efforts to raise Chicago’s minimum wage to $15 per hour in 2021.
Sadlowski Garza is the fifth City Council committee chair to announce they will not run for re-election, joining Ald. Tom Tunney , former Ald. Michele Smith , Ald. George Cardenas and Ald. Harry Osterman First elected in 2015, Sadlowski Garza defeated longtime 10th Ward Ald. John Pope by just 20 votes. Pope was an aide to former Mayor Richard M. Daley and had the endorsement of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In 2019, Sadlowski Garza won a second term handily, earning nearly 69% of the vote.
Oscar Sanchez, who was one of a number of Southeast Side residents who went on a 30-day hunger strike to protest city officials’ decision to allow a metal shredding and recycling operation to move from the North Side to the Southeast Side, announced he would challenge Sadlowski Garza.
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