The news follows eight months of uncertainty and behind-the-scenes posturing inside City Hall.
Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, speaks at a City Council meeting at City Hall, May 22, 2024. Mayor Brandon Johnson is attempting to shore up support for two allies from different schools of political thought to run the City Council Zoning and Housing committees, in a bid to end a monthslong dance over who will hold the powerful chairmanships.
Sigcho-Lopez said “conversations are ongoing” Monday morning and added that he did not want to “get ahead” of his potential appointment by discussing it further, while Burnett told the Tribune the administration is “still working on that” and “looking at votes” regarding his potential leadership post.
Ald. Bennett Lawson, 44th, a political moderate, has been interim chair of Zoning since Ramirez-Rosa stepped down. Lawson is currently trying to push through a major zoning change as soon as Wednesday that could allow the owners of many Chicago homes. Johnson has repeatedly argued the lack of a permanent chair has not slowed the city’s zoning work or his own agenda.
Sigcho-Lopez’s colleagues sought to strip him of his current Housing Committee chairmanship this April after a protest speech he madethe previous month. Some critics charged he was unfit for leadership, while Sigcho-Lopez maintained he never saw the flag that was burnt by a veteran in protest of the federal government’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza. His council colleagues voted 29-16 to not punish him.
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