WHO’S IN AND WHO’S ON THE FENCE

RUNNING

Dorothy Brown, Cook County Circuit

Court clerk

Gery Chico, former chief of staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley (1992-1995), former CPS board president (1995-2001), former Chicago Park District board president (2007-2010)

Bill Daley, Richard M. Daley’s brother, former chief of staff to President Barack Obama (2011-2012), former U.S. secretary of commerce (1997-2000)

Amara Enyia, director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce

Ja’Mal Green, activist in Chicago’s Black Lives Matter movement

Jerry Joyce, former assistant state’s attorney and son of a clout-heavy Chicago politico

William Kelly, television producer John Kozlar, two-time aldermanic candidate

Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, former CPS principal

Lori Lightfoot, former president of Chicago Police Board, former U.S. attorney

Garry McCarthy, former Chicago police superintendent (2011-2015)

Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board president, Cook County Democratic Party chair

Matthew Roney, political science student at DePaul University

Neal Sales-Griffin, entrepreneur and

educator

Paul Vallas, former CPS CEO (19952001), former gubernatorial (2002) and lieutenant governor candidate (2014)

Willie Wilson, businessman William ‘Dock’ Walls, businessman

CONSIDERING RUNNING

Bob Fioretti, former alderman (2nd)

(2007-2015)

La Shawn Ford, state representative

(D-Chicago)

Susana Mendoza, Illinois comptroller, former Chicago city clerk (2011-2016)

Ricardo Munoz, alderman (22nd) Maria Pappas, Cook County treasurer Ameya Pawar, alderman (47th) Michael Sacks, chairman and CEO of Chicago-based Grosvenor Capital Management Roderick Sawyer, alderman (6th) Tom Tunney, alderman (44th)

POTENTIAL CANDIDATES

Leslie Hairston, alderman (5th) Raymond Lopez, alderman (15th) Proco Joe Moreno, alderman (1st) Scott Waguespack, alderman (32nd)