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 16^th 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.

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