early in the Johnson administration he appointed Rich Guidice led the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications from 2019 until earlier this month, when he announced his retirement from the department who worked under mayors Lori Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel and Richard M. Daley as his first chief of staff.
Incoming City Hall chief of staff was suspended for role in free parking ‘scheme’ by United Center
By A.D. Quig
Chicago Tribune
•Published May 12, 2023 at 2:09 pm
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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s pick for chief of staff was previously disciplined for his role in a plan with fellow city workers to give free parking to friends and family near the United Center during Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Bulls games.
The city suspended Richard Guidice for 30 days in 2017 after a report from the Chicago Office of Inspector General found he and several other city employees participated in a “scheme” in which they set aside free street parking for friends and family during Blackhawks playoff games and Bulls games in 2015 and 2016.
and earlier this week Johnson hosted Rahm Emanuel and praised him. the man the CTU called Murder Mayor and who closed the most black schools in the history of Chicago
from the archives and history of Substance News we have the whose who of the enemy of working people of Chicago
Daley and Richardson-Lowry continue attack on teachers as Chicago stands to gain $105 million from new federal law Danielle Ciesielski – August 12, 2010
https://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1590
Richardson-Lowry was appointed President of the Chicago Board of Education by Mayor Richard M. Daley and becomes the third Board President in less than a year. One year ago, during the time of the 2009 Hit List hearings, Rufus Williams was President of the Chicago Board of Education. Mayor Daley recommends new Board president Richardson-Lowry is a partner in the law firm of Mayer Brown.
According to the City Hall press release dated January 28, 2010, “Mayor Richard M. Daley announced today that he has appointed Mary Richardson-Lowry as a member of the Chicago Board of Education and recommended to the Board that she be named President. Richardson-Lowry would succeed Michael Scott, who died last November.”
As usual, at the time of his appointment of Richardson-Lowry, Daley claimed the schools were still in trouble, as he has been proclaiming during the 14 years since he became the first big city mayor to do “mayoral control.
“Our schools are at a turning point. Either we accept the challenge to take them to a new level of achievement or we risk falling behind,” Daley said at a City Hall news conference, according to the City Hall press release.
According to Daley, the school system needs to be taken to what he calls “The next level” and Richardson Lowry is the person for the job. “She is a solid manager,” Daley stated. “I know her to be a person who will fight for people. Most importantly, I know that she will always put children first.”
Richardson-Lowry is a partner in the law firm of Mayer Brown. She is a former commissioner of the City’s Buildings Department and a former City assistant corporation counsel.
https://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1164
Board President Mary Richardson Lowry tried to stop Gaete, sister of Gema Gaete, who had spoken the previous month. Richardson-Lowry’s hostility toward the Whittier protesters will be visible to everyone unless the Board cuts the exchange from the TV version of the Board meeting when it is broadcast on Chicago Cable TV Saturday
