City’s top tourism official stepping down after less than two years on the job

Lynn Osmond at the 2022 James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2022. (Getty)

Seven months before hosting the Democratic National Convention, Chicago is losing the head of its tourism marketing agency.

Choose Chicago President and CEO Lynn Osmond resigned Thursday, effective Jan. 31, just 20 months into her four-year contract to focus her “time and energies on a family health matter.”