Forgot to note, that I just recently published a page for the 2011 elections.

2011 Election

This was the election where President Obama's former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was elected Mayor of Chicago. He had a tumultuous two terms as mayor and fun fact 2011 was the last time a candidate outright won the mayoral election without having to go to a run-off.

In 2015, Mayor Emanuel was in a runoff with then Cook County Commissioner Chuy Garcia. In 2019, Lori Lightfoot won the mayor's race against Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. And then in 2023 then Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson defeats former Chicago Public School CEO Paul Vallas.

Question is what would 2027 hold. We're at more than the halfway point for the next municipal elections here in Chicago.

Also, it causes me to want to tweak the 2015 and 2019 pages to include the mayoral race. I've included in all these election pages the Ward 9 Alderman election as that's the race that should be very important, not just the mayoral race.

Feel free to let me know if there's anything I should add to these pages.

Also for the record this is now Ward 9 looked up until 2015.

Mayor-elect selects education transition teams

Crain's has a list of names for Rahm Emanuel as he appoints a 14 member team consisting of business, community, & non-profit leaders for making recommendations for improving education:

• Ellen Alberding, President of the Joyce Foundation.
• Rev. Byron Brazier of the Apostolic Church of God.
• Don Feinstein, Executive Director, Academy for Urban School Leadership.
• Sharrod Gordon of the Target Area Development Corp.
• Zipporah Hightower, Principal of Bethune School of Excellence.
• Liz Kirby, Principal, Kenwood Academy High School.
• Tim Knowles, Director, University of Chicago Urban Education Institute.
• Mike Milkie, Superintendent and CEO, Noble Street Charter School.
• Natalie Neris-Guereca, teacher, Dr. Jorge Prieto Elementary School.
• John Price, Principal, John J. Audubon Elementary School.
• Diana Rauner, President, Ounce of Prevention Fund.
• Celena Roldan, Executive Director, Erie Neighborhood House.
• Monica Sims, teacher, John J. Pershing West Middle School.
• Elizabeth Swanson, Executive Director, Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation.

Safe to assume this team will concern themselves with the Chicago Public Schools. This is what a mayor transition does and it's been 22 years almost since Chicago has inaugurated a new mayor. Imagine that!

Also noted is a 17-member transition team for improving the city's financial plan (budget).

Shedd School on election day...

Shedd School was a polling place during the mayoral election last month. I would've taken more pictures outside but there were people standing around, prolly campaign volunteers to maintained a distance marked by some blue cones. Inside the blue cones campaign activity was prohibited.

As I walked around on that Tuesday I decided to go by Bennett School and possibly take some pictures. There were people standing around oustide of that school and I also didn't feel bold enough to take a picture.

BTW, Shedd School is located in Chicago's 6th Ward (Ald. Freddrenna Lyle who's in a run off) while Bennett School is located in Chicago's 9th Ward (Ald. Anthony Beale who prevailed over his opponents). Believe it or not Shedd and Bennett aren't that far away from each other. What separates the 6th and 9th Wards is the Calumet (Bishop Ford) Expressway. Even then both schools are a block off the expressway.

The campaign signs outside of Shedd

Signs in front of Shedd's playset

Signs on a neighboring block outside of Shedd