Chicago’s chief operating officer and Streets and Sanitation commissioner are leaving City Hall, exacerbating the extraordinary mid-term turnover in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s cabinet.
Chief Operating Officer Anne Sheahan’s resignation is effective at week’s end. Streets and Sanitation Commissioner John Tully intends to retire in June.
Chief Procurement Officer Shannon Andrews left in April to join the county health system. Mayoral press secretary Jordan Troy also has signed off.
Sheahan, Tully and Andrews are holdovers from former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration.
So were Water Management Commissioner Randy Conner, who resigned in late December; Family and Support Services Commissioner Lisa Morrison Butler, who stepped down in February; and Sydney Roberts, head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, who was forced out last week after Lightfoot publicly ridiculed the slow pace of COPA investigations.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, another Emanuel holdover, announced May 3 she would not renew her $300,000-a-year contract. She’s exiting CPS, along with her two top deputies.
Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Susan Lee lasted just 16 months and was…
