{"id":430785,"date":"2010-03-15T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310fa3b1c0970c"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:29:26","slug":"daley-fills-two-city-council-seats-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430785","title":{"rendered":"Daley fills two City Council seats in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Hal Dardick <\/em>at 4:25 p.m.<\/p>\n

Mayor Richard Daley made two appointments to\u00a0vacant City Council seats today, naming a state lawmaker for the 29th Ward and a businessman for the 1st Ward.<\/p>\n

In the 29th Ward, left vacant last month when former Ald. Isaac Carothers pleaded guilty in federal court to a bribery charge, Daley appointed state Rep. Deborah Graham, who now represents residents in the Austin neighborhood and Oak Park.<\/p>\n

In the 1st Ward, where former Ald. Manny Flores gave up his post two months ago to become the chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission,\u00a0Daley appointed Proco \u201cJoe\u201d Moreno, the vice president of a graphic arts and printing company who lost a 2008 contest for the state Senate.<\/p>\n

The City Council must sign off to make the selections official.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Graham, 43, who also works as a coordinator of special projects in the in the city Department of Planning and Development, said she will give up that job to become alderman. <\/p>\n

Daley cited Graham\u2019s legislative experience in both the city and suburbs. In Springfield, she has backed gun-control legislation favored by the mayor.<\/p>\n

She succeeded in a career in social services and government after spending eight months in a shelter as a young woman when she fled a violent husband, Graham said. \u201cHad I not made a decision to leave, I would probably be dead,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Daley said he picked Moreno, 37, in part because of his business experience. \u201cWhat I\u2019m going to concentrate on is public safety and constituents services in the ward," Moreno said.<\/p>\n

Daley said the city received 59 eligible applicants, many of them from an\u00a0online job posting. Of those, the mayor said he interviewed 44 people.<\/p>\n

"The interesting thing was to listen to people about their concerns" about the city, Daley said.
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Posted by Hal Dardick at 4:25 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley made two appointments to\u00a0vacant City Council seats today, naming a state lawmaker for the 29th Ward and a businessman for the 1st Ward. In the 29th Ward, left vacant last month when former Ald. Isaac Carothers pleaded guilty in federal court to a bribery charge, […]<\/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-430785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430785","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=430785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}