4th Ward - 2023 Aldermanic Race
Helen West - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Helen West is a retired educator, cancer survivor, coronavirus survivor and former art gallery owner. West has served on the Board of Directors of Muntu Dance Company, Mid-South Planning and Development and the South Side Community Art Center. West and her boyfriend both got sick with COVID-19 in 2020; while her boyfriend died, West enrolled in a remdesivir trial — she credited the drug with contributing to her recovery from the disease.
Ebony Lucas - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Ebony Lucas is a real estate attorney who is making her third run for the aldermanic seat in the 4th Ward. Lucas unsuccessfully challenged Ald. Sophia King in 2017 and 2019. Lucas, who is the managing partner for a firm called The Property Law Group, told the Hyde Park Herald in September that her campaign is focused on affordable housing and local commercial development.
Some of her past experience includes serving on the King College Prep Local School Council and serving as president of Mandrake Park Advisory Council, according to a biography on The Property Law Group’s website .
Lucas is currently the board secretary for the South Side Community Investor Association, and she attended University of Michigan Law School.
Tracey Bey - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Tracey Bey is making her second run for 4th Ward alderman after challenging former Ald. Will Burns in 2015. This cycle, her nominating petitions are being challenged, putting her status on the ballot in jeopardy.
Matthew "Khari" Humphries - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
Khari Humphries, senior director of youth policy in the Mayor’s Office of Education and Human Services, is aiming to leave the Lightfoot administration to lead the 4th Ward as current Ald. Sophia King mounts a challenge against the sitting mayor.
Humphries was appointed to the youth policy post by the mayor in the spring of 2022, with the office recognizing his 25 years of community relations and nonprofit work on behalf of youth. Humphries earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from St. Xavier University and was a 2018 Fellow of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy’s Civic Leadership Academy, according to the Chicago Mayor’s Office.
His previous experience includes serving as director of the Boys and Girls Club of Chicago, serving as executive director of school age strategies for Thrive Chicago and serving as senior manager of community life for The Community Builders, Inc. in Bronzeville.
Lamont Robinson - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
State Rep. Lamont Robinson Jr. (D-Chicago) has served two terms in the Illinois General Assembly and became the first openly LGBTQ African American elected to the state legislature in 2018. He was reelected to a third term in the House in 2022. Robinson has a degree in business marketing from Clark Atlanta University and an MBA from National Louis University.
The legislator has been an insurance agent and owns an Allstate insurance branch, worked as a business professor at Harold Washington College and worked as director of the Kappa Leadership Institute in Chicago. Robinson nabbed the endorsement of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who lives in the 4th Ward and who said “Lamont works hard and has the vision and experience to lead the Fourth Ward forward.”
Prentice Butler - 2023 Aldermanic Candidate
As outgoing Ald. Sophia King’s chief of staff, Prentice Butler is pitching his experience working for an existing alderman as the main argument for why 4th Ward residents should choose him to succeed King. His website says his work with King “has demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of city government, social media, and community engagement, which has expanded the outreach of the Alderman’s agenda and accomplishments.”
Butler attended the University of Chicago — where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science and later a master’s in public policy from the Harris School of Public Policy — and Loyola Chicago, where he earned a master’s in Urban Life Learning: Chicago Studies. Butler worked for the Law Office of Ernesto Borges, a bankruptcy firm, to provide financial consultations, including to low- and middle-income customers.
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