Louis Masotti was a Northwestern University professor and an urban affairs activist who headed Jane Byrne’s transition team in 1979 during her successful mayoral run.
“Dr. Masotti was a big thinker always looking for ways to make big things happen,” said Lance Pressl, a former student and a senior policy fellow at the Institute for Work & the Economy.Masotti, 88, died of complications from colon cancer April 14 at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, said his wife of 35 years, Randi. A San Diego resident, he had lived in California since 1990.
He remained as an adviser to Stokes but left Cleveland in controversy after writing 1969′s “Shootout in Cleveland,” which raised questions about the police role in a 1968 shooting incident. Mary Ludgin, a senior managing director and director of global investment research at Chicago-based real estate investment management firm Heitman, worked for Masotti at the Center for Urban Affairs for three years while a graduate research assistant at Northwestern.
“The sheer volume of investment ran contrary to the theme of the era, that the downtowns of cities like Chicago — Rust Belt cities — were blowing away like dry leaves, losing population and jobs to the suburbs or to the Sun Belt,” Ludgin said. “Our report caught the impact of early residential investments that were drawing Baby Boomers, just out of college or graduate school, to live as pioneers in places like the South Loop that lacked amenities like grocery stores.
After Byrne won, she began downplaying any role that Masotti would play in her administration, and she opted not to name him one of her top administrative officers. By the end of April 1979, Masotti had exited the mayor’s office altogether after six weeks and returned to Northwestern.
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