While the Mayor ruled the City Hall and all things related to its function. It was the protocol that the Ward Alderman owned the decisions and streets in their ward. The effective Ward Alderman built their base by taking care of their Ward. This in turn made the Ward Alderman the strongest political capital after the Mayor in the City.
When Cathy O'Dea became Ward 7 Alderman she immediately took on both the apparent and less apparent issues. She battled Tufts and won a moratorium to stop their buying residential property. She made life so difficult for the Jumbo Lounge that they effectively went out of business. When the CHT was about to expire ... she got the resources together ...and saved 600 units of low and moderate income housing.
The quid pro was that when another ward alderman wanted something in their ward... almost always things where approved without question.
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