{"id":422610,"date":"2010-03-12T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a92e9f76970b"},"modified":"2010-03-12T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:31:14","slug":"nearly-60-apply-for-two-chicago-city-council-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/422610","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 60 apply for two Chicago City Council vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick <\/em>at 5:28 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 60 people applied for two vacant Chicago aldermen jobs, according to a list City Hall released this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The list, however, only identifies the candidates by their names, and was released after 4 p.m., making it tough to quickly verify many of the candidates. You can check out the applicant list\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mayor.cityofchicago.org\/etc\/medialib\/mayor\/press_room1\/press_releases\/press_release_pdfs\/2010.Par.3048.File.dat\/0312%20Ald%20Applicant%20List.pdf\">by clicking here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/mayor.cityofchicago.org\/etc\/medialib\/mayor\/press_room1\/press_releases\/press_release_pdfs\/2010.Par.3048.File.dat\/0312%20Ald%20Applicant%20List.pdf\"> <\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/br>The 1st Ward spot has been open since January, when former Ald. Manny Flores went to work for Gov. Pat Quinn. Daley must appoint Flores&#8217; replacement by Tuesday. Then the City Council gets to vote on the candidate.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Among the 35 vying in the near Northwest Side 1st Ward are Jesse Juarez, the ward\u2019s Democratic committeeman; Deborah Lopez, senior government affairs liaison for the Chicago Transit Authority; Proco \u201cJoe\u201d Moreno, a onetime state Senate candidate; lawyer Jesse Ruiz, chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education; and Raymond Valadez, who was Flores\u2019 chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>The other City Council vacancy is in the 29th Ward. That seat came free last month when Isaac Carothers<br \/>\npleaded guilty to bribery charges in federal court. Daley must appoint<br \/>\na replacement to represent the West Side ward by April 2.<br \/><\/br>\n<\/p>\n<p>Among the 22 who want to succeed Carothers are Democratic state Rep. Deborah Graham; Rev. Marshall Hatch, vice president of Operation PUSH; Mary Russell Gardner, secretary of the Cook County Board of Forest Preserve Commissioners; and Bruce Washington, the county\u2019s capital planning director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 5:28 p.m. Nearly 60 people applied for two vacant Chicago aldermen jobs, according to a list City Hall released this afternoon. The list, however, only identifies the candidates by their names, and was released after 4 p.m., making it tough to quickly verify many of the candidates. You can check [&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-422610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422610","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=422610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}