The 4th, 5th and 10th wards will have new aldermen as the incumbents aren't running, leading to a flood of candidates.
Bey, who works as director of operations for the nonprofitEx-Cons for Community and Social Change, suggested more community-level approaches to battling crime, such as appointing community “liaisons” who would work on all ward anti-violence and intervention programs, similarly to what her own organization does.
A former senior director of youth policy in Lightfoot’s office of Education and Human Services, Humphries pledged to engage all parts of the ward, not only its affluent half, questioning King’s engagement with the Lightfoot administration’s support for an upcoming NASCAR event in the Loop. Despite work by business leaders and concerned residents to reverse damage done by foreclosure and eviction crises, South Shore’s main business drag on East 71st Street has continued to struggle amid community complaints that some property owners purposely kept storefronts closed in order to receive a vacancy tax break.
an advisory board to “provide funds for local entrepreneurs who have showed attempts at starting and running a business, to assist with formation, fees, filings, taxes and startup capital.”Activists have argued for a community bargaining agreement to ensure housing protections in a neighborhood where more than 75% of residents are renters.
mental health programs, community-based violence reduction programs, reentry programs for formerly incarcerated people and youth programming.Rounding out the candidates is Wallace E. Goode Jr., the former executive director of the Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce.
While steel mills and factories are long gone, the Southeast Side is home to numerous industries that produce waste materials affecting the area’s air, land and water. Those includeincinerators, landfills and chemical- and food-processing facilities. Area residents also remain plagued by higher rates of coronary heart disease, asthma and some cancers than any other part of the city.
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