A longtime attorney, Rebecca Janowitz got her start in Chicago politics working for then-Ald. Toni Preckwinkle as her special assistant, where she “focused on constituent services, public safety, housing, education, economic development, traffic and infrastructure,” according to her campaign website. She later went on to work for Chicago Public Schools and more recently, the Cook County Judicial Advisory Council as the special assistant of legal affairs. While there, “[s]he helped oversee the distribution of millions of grant dollars to community organizations working in the areas of violence prevention, recidivism reduction and restorative justice,” according to her campaign website. Janowitz’s 2022 bid for the 43rd Ward seat isn’t her first. She ran for the seat in 2019 but she was handily defeated in the election and garnered only 4.8 percent of the vote.

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