More Asian Americans have been elected to the Chicago City Council and Illinois state legislature, part of a new wave of Asian Americans serving in public office.
More Asian Americans have been elected to the Chicago City Council and Illinois state legislature in 2023 than ever before.More Asian Americans, particularly women, have been elected to the Chicago City Council and Illinois state legislature, part of a new wave of Asian Americans serving in public office.
"We have the opportunity to gather around the things that unites us, the things that we want," Lee said. "We want safe neighborhoods, we want our kids to get a good education and have a more prosperous life than we did." "Far too often government has worked for a select, privileged few, and we can't keep doing the same thing over and over again if we want different outcomes," she said.
State Rep. Theresa Mah was the first Asian American elected to the Illinois legislature in 2016. She is now in her fourth term and watching the rise in Asian American representation with pride.
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