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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitchell Armentrout

With CTU help, Clay claims North Side’s 46th Ward seat, as Knudsen struggles to hold 43rd Ward appointment

Community organizer Angela Clay casts her ballot on Tuesday as election coordinator Lyda Jackson watches at Joseph Brennemann Elementary School in the Uptown neighborhood. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Community organizer Angela Clay won the North Side’s 46th Ward Tuesday night, with the Chicago Teachers Union-backed candidate poised to become the youngest member of the City Council. 

Another far-left progressive organizer was poised to make history in the nearby 48th Ward, where Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth declared victory in her bid to become Chicago’s first Filipina alderperson — but her opponent, affordable housing developer Joe Dunne, wasn’t ready to concede the race. 

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