Retiring Ald. Roberto Maldonado (26th) on Wednesday endorsed Mayor Lori Lightfoot over the only Hispanic mayoral candidate, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-Ill.), calling Lightfoot the “only mayor” who has “talked the talk and walked the walk when it comes to affordable housing.”
“I’m being grateful to a sitting mayor who has supported my initiatives in affordable housing that, I think, are so paramount so that my community, my ward [can be protected] from being gentrified like my surrounding wards,” Maldonado, 71, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
