Paul Bruton -2023 Municipal Election

A lifelong Chicago resident, Paul Bruton got his start in public service working for I-GO Car Sharing, a Chicagoland non-profit dedicated to car-sharing to protect the environment and curb high transportation costs. He then went on to get his public policy master’s degree at Northwestern University before working for the Chicago Inspector General’s Office. He said in his campaign bio that his work in the community in the Inspector General’s office made him realize “how often city workers were expected to get the job done without the right tools, technology, and training that they needed to effectively do their work.” He left the office in 2018 to raise his two children but decided to throw his hat in for the 13^th ward “to fight Chicago’s legacy of corruption,” he wrote in his campaign bio.

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Marty Quinn - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate, Incumbent

Ald. Marty Quinn (13) has served as alderman since 2011 and served as an aide to indicted former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan. Quinn handily won reelection in 2019 against his opponent David Krupa with 86 percent of the vote, though Krupa filed a civil rights lawsuit against Quinn and Madigan ahead of the election, accusing them of trying to strong-arm him off the ballot. Krupa filed a defamation suit against Quinn and the Chicago Teachers Union as well.

In 2020, former Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson accused Quinn of putting his and Madigan’s names on an instrument meant to blast graffiti, which Ferguson called a “prohibited political activity.”

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