Chicago Ald. Michael Scott Jr. is leaving the City Council
“Service has been the cornerstone of my family’s legacy,” Scott Jr. said in a statement. “My mother and father both spent their entire careers serving this great city in one capacity or another. My father often told is that serving your community is the highest calling you can have besides being a man or woman of the cloth.”Scott said his ward, “once dubbed the permanent underclass, is poised for a major renaissance.
The vacancy marks the second time Mayor Lori Lightfoot will have the opportunity to appoint an alderman. After Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson was convicted in federal court on tax charges earlier this year, Lightfoot appointed Nicole Lee to fill the seat. As an alderman, Scott was a close Lightfoot ally who endorsed her in the second round of 2019′s mayoral race. Lightfoot then tapped Scott to head the City Council education committee.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: How Chicago became the go-to city for political conventionsBetween 1860 and 1996, Chicago hosted 25 Republican and Democratic conventions. No other city has hosted nearly as many.
Read more »
Vintage Voices: A look back at Chicago Tribune columns through the yearsAs the Tribune celebrates its 175th anniversary, editors from across the newsroom dug through the archives to offer this small snapshot of Tribune Voices from the past.
Read more »
Take a look back at Gene Siskel’s memorable movie reviews for the Chicago TribuneChicago Tribune movie columnist Gene Siskel was in love with words and movies. But it was an unlikely and ever-contentious television relationship with rival Roger Ebert that changed the way America looked at movies.
Read more »
Diary of Our City: Tribune celebrates 175 years of Chicago storiesThe Chicago Tribune kicks off a six-week celebration of its 175th anniversay by digging through the paper's archives, a place filled with triumphs and tragedies, oddities and oddballs, events and people both wonderful and wild, writes Rick Kogan.
Read more »
From canoes to skyscrapers: A newspaper is born, and Chicago is catapulted to the world’s stageImagine yourself walking the muddy streets of Chicago in June of 1847. If you had 3 cents in your pocket to spare you might have spent it to buy the first edition of a new newspaper named the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Read more »