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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Mayor-elect picks another City Hall veteran to serve as chief operating officer

John Roberson, shown in 2004 at O’Hare Airport after being named Chicago’s aviation commissioner, has been picked by Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson to serve as the city’s chief operating officer. (Sun-Times file photo)

John Roberson was once one of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s favorites, hop-scotching from job to job before falling out of favor with the notoriously demanding mayor.

He lost his seventh and final job with Daley — as aviation commissioner — after his name turned up on a list of cooperating witnesses in the federal investigation of City Hall corruption that included the Hired Truck, city hiring and minority contracting scandals.

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