{"id":385346,"date":"2010-03-03T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310f5a39b5970c"},"modified":"2010-03-03T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:51:13","slug":"daley-names-chico-chairman-of-city-colleges-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385346","title":{"rendered":"Daley names Chico chairman of City Colleges board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 1:38 p.m.; <strong>last updated at 2:28 p.m.<\/strong><br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Mayor Richard Daley today named longtime trusted aide Gery Chico to lead the board overseeing City Colleges of Chicago.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Chico, 53, is a former Daley chief of staff who is currently Chicago Park District board president. He\u2019ll replace James Tyree, CEO of Mesirow Financial and one of the owners of the Chicago Sun-Times.\n<\/p>\n<p>Daley said &quot;now is time to bring the same sense of urgency to turning around Chicago City Colleges&quot; that he brought to Chicago Public Schools 15 years ago.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Chico, an attorney, was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2004 Democratic U.S. Senate primary won by then-state Sen. Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Daley also named Cheryl Hyman, a vice president at ComEd, chancellor of City Colleges. Hyman, 40, will replace Wayne Watson, who left City Colleges last year to become president of Chicago State University.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I believe they will bring fresh eyes to City Colleges,&quot; Daley said.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 1:38 p.m.; last updated at 2:28 p.m.Mayor Richard Daley today named longtime trusted aide Gery Chico to lead the board overseeing City Colleges of Chicago. Chico, 53, is a former Daley chief of staff who is currently Chicago Park District board president. He\u2019ll replace James Tyree, CEO of Mesirow Financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}