Chicago elected a record number of Latinos to serve as aldermen in its new City Council. Latinos will now hold 11 of 50 alderman seats, composing 22% of the council. - NBCLatino
after winning 54.3 percent of the vote to Acevedo’s 45.7 percent of the vote with all 32 precincts reporting.Sigcho-Lopez immigrated to the United States from Ecuador when he was 17 years old. He’s been an educator and public policy researcher at the University of Illinois-Chicago for ten years and served as the executive director of the Pilsen Alliance, an organization fighting against gentrification.
This was not Sigcho-Lopez’s first time running for alderman of the 25th Ward, which includes Pilsen and Chinatown. In the 2015 municipal election, he fell approximately 80 votes short of forcing“Chicago voters set this city on a new path that’s inclusive of everyone,” Sigcho-Lopez said in a statement. “As an immigrant, I look forward to being an advocate in City Hall for everyone, including Chicago’s immigrant and Latino communities.
Latinos may win one more seat: Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, a community activist from Puerto Rico, had a 24-vote lead over Ald. Deb Mell as of Tuesday night. However, Mell did not concede, according to theIf Rodriguez-Sanchez wins, the number of white aldermen on the city council would be 19 — the fewest since the 50 ward system was adopted in 1923.
Vasquez said one of the first initiatives he’ll undertake as alderman is to ensure fair elections by limiting big money, so that people who don’t normally have access to run are able to do so.
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