Ald. Howard Brookins’ decision not to run again means 12 Chicago wards — representing approximately 25% of the city — are set for new City Council leadership in May 2023.
In this file photo, Ald. Howard Brookins speaks at a Chicago City Council meeting.
As Transportation Committee chair, Brookins helped push through a proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable and championed an effort to permit shared e-scooters to zoom around Chicago after two pilot programs. Ald. Sophia King , Ald. Raymond Lopez and Ald. Roderick Sawyer announced bids for mayor in 2023. Sawyer is the chair of the City Council’s Health and Human Relations Committee.
First elected in 2003, Brookins, a criminal defense attorney, won a fifth term in 2019, defeating Marvin McNeil by fewer than 900 votes in a runoff.after it unanimously found he had violated the city’s Ethics Ordinance by defending clients — including former 1st Ward Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno — in criminal cases involving the Chicago Police Department.
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