Freddrenna Lyle
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| Freddrenna Margaret Lyle | |
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| City of Chicago Alderman, Democratic Committeeman | |
| Member of the Chicago City Council from the 6th Ward | |
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| Assumed office February 8, 1998 |
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| Preceded by | John O. Steele |
| Constituency | 6th Ward |
| Vice Chairman of the Democratic Party of the County of Cook | |
| Chairman of the Black Elected Officials of the State of Illinois | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chicago, Illinois |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois United States |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Chicago, Bachelor’s Degree, John Marshall Law School, Juris Doctor, 1980 |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Christian- Baptist |
| Website | 6thWardAlderman.com |
Freddrenna Margaret Lyle is a former alderman of the 6th ward of the City of Chicago. She was appointed to the office by Mayor Daley in 1998 to fill the unexpired term of John O. Steele, now a Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court.
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[edit] Early history
Lyle has lived in the Park Manor, Chicago neighborhood for more than 45 years. She attended Park Manor Elementary School and South Shore High School. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her law degree from John Marshall Law School. Before her appointment, Lyle was an attorney in private practice.
[edit] Public service
Lyle was President of the Cook County Bar Association, board member of the National Bar Association, member of the Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness, and co-chair of the Lawyer’s Committee for Harold Washington. She also served on Governor Blagojevich’s transition team. She is currently a member of Park Manor Neighbors, Chatham Avalon Park Community Council, NAACP, and Rainbow/PUSH. She is currently the Vice Chair of the Cook County Democratic Party and Chairman of the Black Elected Officials of Illinois.
[edit] Aldermanic career
Lyle was appointed alderman by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley on February 8, 1998 to fill the unexpired term of John O. Steele. She was reelected for a full term in 1999, 2003 and 2007 and also elected as the Democratic Committeeman in 2006.
Lyle served on the negotiating team for the remapping of Chicago wards. She sponsored a resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty in 2000; she also co-sponsored the Living Wage, Predatory Lending, and Anti-War resolutions.[citation needed]
During her tenure, Ward improvements have included two (2) new Senior Satellite Centers; a Senior Suites Housing Development; Ryan Harris Park; the Deneen Elementary School addition; the Harlan High School 7th & 8th grade Academic Center; the Harlan High School Magnet Engineering Program; the Chatham Club Housing Development; Prairie Haven Homes; the redevelopment of 87th & Cottage Grove Shopping Center with Target and NIKE Factory Outlet as anchors; the 71st Street Streetscaping and new housing. Recognizing that some of our youth problems were caused by the absence of youth programming, she stopped waiting for some agency to come into the Ward and start running programs and created Ward programs that impacted the lives of area children. From meeting with school Principals to establishing her own not for profit, Lyle For Kids, she began programming youth activities in 1999. Each year Lyle For Kids hosts an Oratory Contest, a Bike Ride, a Graduates’ Reception, a Parade and Picnic for the SSLL, a picnic, the Hook a Kid on Golf program and a Basketball Tournament. In 2009 LFK successfully applied for Federal funds to run after school programming in 5 schools and a 7 week Leadership Academy.[citation needed]
Lyle serves on five committees: Budget; Finance; Parks and Recreation; License and Consumer Protection; Traffic and Public Safety; and Rules and Ethics.
In 2008 Lyle voted with Daley to lease out the city’s parking meters. Lyle voted against Mayor Daley only once in Daley's sixth and final term, the four year period 2007-2011. Her only “no” vote came regarding the acquisition of RCN Cable by Yankee Cable. On the same day that she voted on this issue, she was absent from a vote that approved the building of the city’s third Wal-Mart in her own Chatham neighborhood.[1]
On April 5, 2011, Lyle was defeated for re-election by Roderick T. Sawyer, son of former Mayor and Alderman Eugene Sawyer. In the municipal election in February, 2011, Lyle got 45 percent of the vote, good enough for first but not for the straight majority needed to win. The second-place finisher had a name familiar to many longtime residents wishing for a return to happier days—Roderick Sawyer, an attorney and former Lyle ally whose father, Eugene Sawyer, was the ward’s alderman before ascending to the mayor’s office in 1987. Promising to improve city services and get people working together again, Sawyer edged out Lyle in the April 5 runoff by 104 votes, or about 1 percent of the 10,112 cast.[2]
[edit] Personal life
Lyle continues to reside in Park Manor.
[edit] References
- ^ Simpson, Dick; Nell, James; Mouritsen Zmuda, Missy; Gradel, Thomas J.; Smith, Cori; Kelly, Tom (2011-03), The Last of the Daley Years; Chicago City Council Voting Report #5; May 21, 2007 – January 13, 2011, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science, http://www.uic.edu/depts/pols/ChicagoPolitics/CityCouncilReport_Mar2011.pdf
- ^ Dumke, Mick (2011-04-15). "Alderman Lyle Tells Her Constituents So Long—and, to Some, Good Riddance". Chicago Reader. http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/04/15/alderman-lyle-tells-her-constituents-so-longand-to-some-good-riddance.
[edit] External links
- Freddrenna Lyle's official website
- Freddrenna Lyle's official campaign website
- City of Chicago page for Alderman Freddrenna Lyle
- The 6th Ward political geography
- Freddrenna Lyle archive at the Chicago Reader
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