16th Ward - 2023 Aldermanic Race
Stephanie Coleman - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate, Incumbent
Ald. Stephanie Coleman (16) is seeking a second term after unseating progressive Ald. Toni Foulkes in 2019, her second run for the post after she lost to Foulkes in the 2015 municipal runoffs. Coleman, a former aide to Cook County Comm. Dennis Deer (D-2), is the daughter of former 16th Ward Ald. Shirley Coleman. The younger Coleman made a name for herself politically by chartering the ward’s Young Democrats and registering over 1,200 new voters as 16th Ward Democratic Committeeperson, a post she’s held since 2016. On City Council Coleman was chosen in 2020 to chair the Committee on Health and Human Relations’ Subcommittee on Reparations by Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6), who’s currently seeking the mayorship.
Carolyn Denise Crump - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Carolynn Crump has served as a Chicago Police officer for 24 years and is the third in her family to serve in law enforcement, according to Block Club Chicago. Crump ran in the Democratic primary for the Illinois House of Representatives District 6 in 2022 but lost to incumbent Rep. Sonya Harper (D-Chicago). Crump earned a master’s degrees in business management and fraud and examination management at Saint Xavier University, according to her campaign website.
Eddie Johnson Jr. - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Eddie Johnson III is an Englewood community organizer seeking the 16th Ward aldermanic seat following an unsuccessful run in 2019. Johnson is the executive director of the Antioch Community Social Service Agency, the nonprofit division of Antioch Missionary Baptist, an Englewood church destroyed by a fire in April 2022. In 2019, Johnson told the Sun-Times he had been involved in organizing against the closure of four Englewood high schools and served on the Chicago Public Schools steering committee for the then-new Englewood STEM High School.
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