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Perez had already taken down the Medrano sign. “I don’t want any problems,” she explains. “I don’t want them to send the inspectors here just because of a sign.”
–Linda Lutton
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This is Minerva Orozco’s third attempt to unseat 37th Ward alderman Emma Mitts, and Orozco’s campaign manager, Mike Simmons, is taking a lesson from Rod Blagojevich’s gubernatorial race. “You’d see all these Blagojevich signs with the letters real large,” he says, “and that’s how people learned at least to say his name. I figure if it worked for him it could work for us.”
Mitts and Orozco, the most prominent of the five candidates in the race, are quick to attack each other. Orozco accuses Mitts of claiming credit for the new Washington Square Mall at North and Cicero, which is anchored by Cub Foods and Old Navy. “That mall is the only thing the alderman’s done,” says Orozco, “but the person behind it was Giles.”
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