City Council Remembers Alderman JoAnn Thompson At Special Meeting
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago City Council said a formal, and sad, "goodbye" to one of its own Tuesday at a specially called meeting, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Alderman JoAnn Thompson died of heart failure last month in the midst of a re-election campaign. At a meeting framed by music, Mayor Rahm Emanuel remembered Thompson as someone always fighting to get more for her ward, even when she had already done much.
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"Before we would just cut that ribbon, she had something else she had taken out of my pockets, some more money," Emanuel said. "I always told her, 'Jo, just don't look at me because you know there is a yes at the end of it.'"
Alderman Carrie Austin sadly said she would miss how the two of them would fuss and sometimes cuss at each other.
"She would always tell me, 'Do you know what the hell you doing? I don't know JoAnn I think so.' So those… back and forths with her every other day, I am going to really miss that," Austin said.
Thompson was 58-years-old.
