Profile - The Unelected Alderman
Four years ago, Frank Douglass Jr. stood on the front porch of his newly purchased Elm Street home, the first piece of land he has ever owned, and vowed to make a change. “The day I got the keys,” Douglass said, “I thought to myself, ‘I think I should run for alderman,’ and left it at that.”
Flash forward to September 2007: Douglass stands in the basement of City Hall and concedes to opponent Gina Caldor in his underdog campaign for Ward 2 alderman.
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