- Brian Jackson/Sun-Times
- Alderman Natashia Holmes has some challengers in the 7th Ward.
No sooner had my post on the aldermanic cheat sheet hit the street—metaphorically speaking, of course—than I got complaints from readers wanting more.
So in order to feed his ravenous appetite for aldermania, I will randomly open my cheat sheet and write about whatever ward I see. Here goes . . .
Sandi Jackson—wife of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.—used to be the 7th Ward alderman.
“From an insider’s point of view, Mayor Rahm may say he wants to have interviews,” Sandi Jackson said at that meeting. “But for the most part, they turn that matter over to the alderman.”
As opposed to someone sent to him by Sandi Jackson.
Among the candidates running for 7th Ward alderman are Alderman Holmes and Keiana Barrett. So maybe Sandi Jackson was right about her successor after all, albeit in a roundabout way.
