{"id":477259,"date":"2010-03-26T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ec3daacb970b"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:56:44","slug":"city-council-approves-graham-and-moreno-as-new-aldermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/477259","title":{"rendered":"City Council approves Graham and Moreno as new aldermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 1:56 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago City Council has two new aldermen \u2014 a former state legislator from the West Side and a North Side businessman\u00a0 \u2014 after aldermen today approved the most recent appointments by Mayor Richard Daley.<\/p>\n<p>In the 29th Ward, where former Ald. Isaac Carothers resigned his post after pleading guilty in federal court to accepting a bribe, Deborah Graham is the new alderman. Until her appointment, she was a state representative for the Austin neighborhood and Oak Park.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Graham, 43, was a Carothers protege. She said she also will give up her job as a special projects coordinator for the city planning and development department.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>After her appointment, she agreed to make a $5,000 payment to the city because she failed to live up to the terms of a city program that allowed her to buy an affordable home in Austin. She agreed to the payment after the Tribune asked her about the transaction.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In the 1st Ward, where former Manny Flores resigned to become the Illinois Commerce Commission chairman, the new alderman is Joe Moreno, the vice president of a graphic arts and printing company. Moreno, 37, is a member of the Jose Diego Academy local school council and the Humboldt Park Social Services Board.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>He also is involved in the United Neighborhood Organization, a Latino group that has allied itself with Daley and become a political force in the city.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 1:56 p.m. The Chicago City Council has two new aldermen \u2014 a former state legislator from the West Side and a North Side businessman\u00a0 \u2014 after aldermen today approved the most recent appointments by Mayor Richard Daley. In the 29th Ward, where former Ald. Isaac Carothers resigned his post after [&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-477259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477259","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=477259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}