Alsip Mayor John Ryan helped establish term limits in his town. Now that they affect him, will they be eased?
Alsip Mayor John Ryan is currently serving his third consecutive term, the maximum allowed under a 2016 term-limit referendum he helped establish. As a trustee, Ryan led the effort to limit elected officials to three consecutive four-year terms. The town is now addressing whether these limits will be eased as they impact his future eligibility.
A decade ago while a trustee on the Alsip village board, John Ryan led the charge to impose term limits on the mayor and other elected officials in the south suburb so nobody would be able to serve more than three consecutive four-year terms.He marshaled enough support on the village board to get a binding referendum placed on the 2016 ballot, letting Alsip voters decide whether to impose those limits, which they did.Today, Ryan is Alsip’s mayor and in the midst of his third consecutive term —…
READ NEXT
More on the wire
FROM THE PUBLISHER
" src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/47d7e14/2147483647/strip/true/crop/691x423+0+0/resize/840x514!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F59%2F11%2F1d96d780cec3af161408750ae6ae%2Fpolice-lights.png" /> A man was hospitalized Thursday after he was shot in the neck while inside a vehicle in Morgan Park, police said. Police said the victim, a 29-year-old man, sustained a single gunshot wound to the neck at about 8 p.m. when…
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Moon alertAvoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions after 3:15 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn.Aries (March 21-April 19) An average day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } .HoroscopeStarbox_container { display: grid; grid-gap: 5px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr; padding: 20px; width: 40%; min-width: 160px; max-width: 200px; } .HoroscopeStarbox_description { padding: 20px;…
FROM THE PUBLISHER
A 56-year-old woman was wounded after being shot in an alley in Chatham late Thursday, police said.At about 8:12 p.m., police said the woman was walking in an alley in the 8100 block of South Maryland Avenue when she reportedly heard a verbal altercation and saw a 23-year-old woman run to the area from a nearby apartment complex, being pursued by a man. The man then pulled a gun and fired several shots at the woman. One of the rounds hit the 56-year-old woman in the leg. The 23-year-old woman…