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When Emma Mitts, an alderwoman in West Chicago, was appointed in 2000, retail in her 37th Ward consisted of corner stores. Mitts vowed to upgrade the options. In 2003, at a conference sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers, Mitts met with Wal-Mart officials who informed her that they had tried once before to put a store in Chicago but had been stiff-armed. "The unions stopped them," said Mitts. "But the unions weren't an issue...
...true, and now we have a chance to show them." Arguments about the supposed low wages, expensive health plans and gender discrimination are almost beside the point in the 37th Ward. "If it's good enough for the suburbs, why isn't it good enough for the city?" asks alderwoman Mitts. "Why isn't it good enough for us?" --With reporting by Bill Saporito/Bentonville
...this charge, Kenney said that she meant that, as an alderman, she would have more influence to bring about changes which she personally cared about. Divestment and housing the homeless "are things that I have been personally involved with and as an alderwoman I would continue to be a spokeswoman for these issues," Kenney said...
...Ruth Sears Baker Pratt, famed New York City alderwoman, who is listed in the Social Register, will enter the U. S. Congress as Representative on March 4. To succeed her as alderman the Republican District Committee chose last week another Social Registerite. He is Joseph Clark Baldwin III., Manhattan banker, graduate of St. Paul's School and Harvard...
...Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council of Northampton, and also Ruth Baker, now Mrs. Pratt, the first Alderwoman on the New York City Council...