A longtime public relations executive, Wendi Taylor Nations previously threw her hat into the ring for the 43rd Ward shortly after then-Ald. Michele Smith resigned from the City Council.  Though she ultimately wasn’t appointed, Nations is in the running again to head the 43rd Ward. Nations has pointed to her PR qualifications, her role in launching Obamacare in Illinois and her work as a “board member of the DuSable Museum of Black History and volunteer for various food insecurity and animal rescue organizations” as qualifications for her bid for the seat, according to her campaign website. Nations has the endorsement of Smith.

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