AURORA, Sick. – Aurora’s new leaders say they’re charting a brand new path.
Greater than a thousand folks had been in attendance Tuesday evening for the town’s aldermanic and mayoral inaugurations, together with former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and the Counsel Common of India.
The Paramount Theater was full of enterprise house owners, college students, seniors, metropolis workers, and naturally, long-time Aurora residents.
Practically each chair was crammed to witness the swearing-in of metropolis council members and the outgoing alderman—now mayor—John Laesch.
Laesch succeeds two time period Republican Mayor Richard Irvin, who’s been criticized for operating an alleged pay-to-play administration, particularly awarding tens of millions of {dollars} in metropolis subsidies to massive marketing campaign donors.
Laesch, who’s a navy veteran, has lived in Aurora since 2008. On the marketing campaign path, his priorities included lowering metropolis debt, investing in inexperienced power and modernizing Illinois’ second-largest metropolis of 175,000 residents.
Incoming Ald. Keith Larson made historical past at 29 years previous because the youngest particular person ever elected to metropolis council within the western suburb.
Additionally historic, one-third of council members are actually Latino.
