This will make for the biggest City Council turnover in almost 80 years.
"Surprisingly, I was not surprised," Ald. Nick Sposato said of Garza's announcement."I just had a hunch that she wasn't running again – I have nothing to base it on."
Sposato said if you look at those who have left or are leaving, most are older City Hall veterans. He believes age and time served are big factors. "This is a very, very demanding job. People don't realize the demands of this job," Sposato said,"and somebody who does it right like Sue – you know, it's a 70-, 80-hour-a-week job.""The new aldermen who get elected – whoever they are – they're going to be first-term aldermen. They won't be appointed committee chairmen, for the most part," said University of Illinois at Chicago political science professor and former alderman Dick Simpson.
Four other current city council members ran for other elected offices in 2022, but were defeated in the June primary elections, meaning they will stay in their seats on the City Council for now: Ald. Howard Brookins and Ald. Chris Taliaferro both ran for seats as a Cook County
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