Brandon Johnson pointed in his inaugural address to reopening city-run mental health clinics, increasing affordable housing and fighting homelessness as important agenda items he and aldermen will tackle.
, the longtime chief of staff to outgoing Ald. Tom Tunney, 44th, will take over that ward, which represents Wrigleyville and Northalsted., take over in the 46th and 48th wards.
Those relationships in some instances soured during Lightfoot’s term, though, making it more difficult for her to accomplish getting some initiatives passed. Lightfoot’s inaugural remarks foreshadowed the fact she wasn’t going to make maintaining friendly relationships with aldermen her highest priority.
The council also had been rocked months earlier by revelations retired Ald. Danny Solis, 25th, cooperated with federal law enforcement and had worn a wire on colleagues. Several other members of council were targets of federal probes, including former Aldermen Carrie Austin, Patrick Daley Thompson and Ricardo Munoz.
Prior to inauguration day, aldermen complained Lightfoot wasn’t doing enough to communicate with them, a criticism many of them carried throughout her single term in office.
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