Talk:John Arena

Aldermanic career
In 2011, Arena was elected as the alderman of the 45th ward. The 45th ward includes Portage Park, Gladstone Park, Mayfair, Edgebrook, Forest Glen and Jefferson Park.

In 2015, Arena was reelected to another four year term in 2015. On February 26, 2019Alderman Arena is a founding member of the Progressive Reform Caucus and a strong, independent voice on the Chicago City Council, fighting for a living wage and earned sick leave for Chicago’s workers. His support of ethics reform, government transparency and fiscal accountability has set him apart and earned him the 2017 IVI-IPO Leon Despres Award. John co-sponsored the Privatization Transparency, Accountability and Performance Ordinance to prevent Chicago from hastily entering privatization agreements such as the parking meter deal in 2008. The alderman crafted a measure that would gradually increase the minimum wage in Chicago to $15 an hour.

As an alderman, Arena was a member of the Committee on Aviation, Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics, Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development, Committee on Finance, Committee on License and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation. He is also a founding member of the Chicago Progressive Reform Coalition and the Democratic Ward Committeeman for the 45th Ward.

As an alderman, Arena was noted as an advocate for developing affordable housing. Arena was also noted as one of the council's most vocal opponents to mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The previous unsigned content by User:2602:306:BD55:BC30:953B:286B:CCA9:8B35 consisted of the bowdlerized version of the main article, which omits negative information. It's not clear whether the editor misunderstood this as an appropriate way to get the new text inserted into the article. It's almost certainly the same anon (plus Windows 10 IPv6 mangling) who made the last attempt on the main article, in an apparent whitewashing COI edit (that said, I think this article, like so many about politicians, over-emphasizes the dirt). It's not clear to me whether that's a good reason just to delete this entire section per WP:Talk page guidelines; I'll leave that to others, and feel free to remove this bit also. David Brooks (talk) 23:24, 17 February 2020 (UTC)