Indicted Ald. Carrie Austin (34th Ward) officially resigned Wednesday from the Chicago City Council, four months after she told the judge presiding over her federal corruption trial that she was too ill to face a jury.
Ald. Carrie Austin stands to speak at the Dec. 14, 2022, Chicago City Council meeting.
Austin has pleaded not guilty, and is due in court for a hearing on May 25, according to court records. Austin resigned as chair of the Chicago City Council’s Committee on Contracting Oversight and Equity in August 2021 afterthat the committee spent more in 2020 than nearly all other City Council committees while meeting only three times and not advancing a single piece of substantive legislation.
Austin’s former ward is now part of the 21st Ward, where three candidates — Ronnie Mosley, Cornell Dantzler and Preston Brown, Jr., were locked in a battle to advance to an April 4 runoff.
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