He lost his re-election bid in the April 2 runoff in 2019 to Andre Vasquez.
Rudy Lozano
Rudy Lozano (July 17, 1951 – June 8, 1983) was an American activist and community organizer in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in Harlingen, Texas. In 1982 Lozano entered the race for alderman of the 22nd Ward in the city's 1983 elections, in an attempt to be the first Mexican-American elected to the Chicago City Council.
Lozano was known for bringing Latino voters across the city to support candidate Harold Washington, who became Chicago's first African-American mayor.
On June 8, 1983, Lozano was shot to death by a local gang member in his home in Pilsen, Chicago, aged 32. Lozano's campaign manager in the 1983 election, Chuy García, went on to win a 1986 special election for the 22nd Ward.
Harlingen, Texas
Harlingen ( ) is a city in Cameron County in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley of the southern part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 64,849.
It is the city with the lowest cost of living in the United States.
Margaret Chin
Margaret Chin (born May 26, 1954) is a Chinese-American politician. She is a council member for the 1st District of the New York City Council. A Democrat, she makes up the Asian American delegation of the city council.
Inge Feltrinelli
Inge Feltrinelli (née Schönthal; 24 November 1930 – 20 September 2018) was a German-born Italian photographer and director. She ran the Italian publishing house Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore.
In 1952, during a long stay in New York City, she was able to photograph Greta Garbo, Elia Kazan, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Winston Churchill. Among her most celebrated photos are those of writers Ernest Hemingway, Edoardo Sanguineti, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Nadine Gordimer and artists Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.
Feltrinelli died on 20 September 2018 in Milan from stroke at the age of 87.
Mohamed Sahnoun
Mohamed Sahnoun (8 April, 1931 – 20 September, 2018) was an Algerian diplomat.
Sahnoun was an ambassador of Algeria to Germany, France, the United States and Morocco as well as permanent representative of Algeria to the United Nations.
Sahnoun also was the the Organisation of African Unity's Assistant Secretary General, the Arab League's Assistant Secretary-general, the Secretary-General of the United Nations's Special Representative for Somalia in 1992 and the Secretary-General of the United Nations's Special Representative for the Great Lakes region of Africa in 1997.
Reinhard Tritscher
Reinhard Tritscher (August 5, 1946 – September 20, 2018) was an Austrian alpine skier. He competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics where he finished 8th in the Giant Slalom. He was born in Ramsau am Dachstein.
Tritscher was killed in a climbing accident on September 20, 2018 at the Hoher Dachstein at the age of 72.
Petra Němcová
Petra Němcová (; born 24 June 1979) is a Czech model, television host and philanthropist. She was born in Karviná, Czechoslovakia. She founded the "Happy Hearts Fund".
In 2017, the "Happy Hearts Fund" merged with All Hands Volunteers to create All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response, with Němcová having the role of co-founder and vice chair.
In 2017, Petra was appointed by the UNISDR as a Disaster Risk Reduction Champion and Tsunami Awareness Advocate.
Nita Lowey
Nita Sue Melnikoff Lowey (; ; born July 5, 1937) is an American politician. She was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1989 to 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Lowey's district was numbered as the 20th from 1989 to 1993, as the 18th from 1993 to 2013, and has been the since 2013.
Lowey announced on October 10, 2019 that she will not run for re-election to Congress in 2020.
Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenauer (; born August 16, 1948) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for , since 1996. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Portland.
Robert Fioretti
Robert Fioretti (born March 8, 1953) is an American politician. He was an alderman in Chicago's city council, representing Chicago's 2nd Ward.
On September 13, 2014, Fioretti announced that he would challenge Rahm Emanuel in the 2015 mayoral election. Fioretti finished fourth with 7.39% of the vote. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 5th Senate district.
In November 2017, he announced that he would challenge incumbent Toni Preckwinkle for the Democratic nomination for President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. He withdrew from the race on November 16, 2018, in order to launch another mayoral candidacy for the 2019 election.
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician and lawyer. She represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois.
From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand.
She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
Following the public announcement by Richard M. Daley that he would not seek re-election, in November 2010, Braun began her campaign for Mayor of Chicago. She lost the election to Rahm Emanuel.
Miguel del Valle
Miguel del Valle (born July 24, 1951) is an American politician. He was the City Clerk of Chicago. He was an Illinois State Senator from 1987–2006.
Del Valle lost his bid for mayor in Chicago's February 22, 2011 municipal elections, coming in third with 53,953 votes.
George N. Hatsopoulos
George Nicholas Hatsopoulos (January 7, 1927 – September 20, 2018) was a Greek-American mechanical engineer. He was born in Athens. He was known for his work in thermodynamics and for having co-founded Thermo Electron. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hatsopoulos died on September 20, 2018 at his home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, aged 91.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
Lincoln is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,362 at the 2010 census.
Lincoln is reportedly the only town in America named after Lincoln, England (and not the Revolutionary War Major General, Benjamin Lincoln or President Abraham Lincoln).
Paul Revere was captured by British soldiers in Lincoln on the night of April 18, 1775.
Henry Wessel Jr.
Henry Wessel (1942 – September 20, 2018) was an American photographer. He was born in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and three National Endowment for the Arts grants.
His photographs are included in the permanent collections of major American, European, and Asian museums. His work were exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Wessel died of lung cancer on September 20, 2018 in San Francisco, California, aged 76.
Jan Schakowsky
Janice Danoff Schakowsky (born May 26, 1944) is an American politician. She is the U.S. Representative for since 1999. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Edward Vrdolyak
Edward Robert Vrdolyak (; born December 28, 1937) is an American politician an lawyer. He was the Chicago alderman and was also head of the Cook County Democratic Party until 1989 when he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Chicago on the Illinois Solidarity Party and Republican Party tickets.
River North Point
River North Point (formerly 350 West Mart Center) is the official name of the 24-floor building located in the Near North Side community area of Chicago. It is on the intersection of the North Branch and the Main Branch of the Chicago River.
It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1977. The building is located in the River North district north of the Main Branch and east of the North Branch.