Former Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Comm. Cynthia Santos worked as chief of staff for former 30th Ward Ald. Michael Wojcik before she ran for the water district commissioner position she’d go on to hold for two decades.

Santos has served on the Illinois Pollution Control Board since 2016. Outside of government, Santos has chaired the Irving Park YMCA board, various school boards and local school councils in her community and served on the Belmont-Central Chamber of Commerce board, she told Block Club Chicago.

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