Lawyers for indicted Ald. Carrie Austin say she's medically unfit for trial, plans to retire in March
Briefly

Lawyers for indicted Ald.Carrie Austin, who has already announced she won't run for reelection, said in a court filing Friday she is medically unfit for trial and will retire from the City Council after the citywide elections in February.Austin, 73, and her top aide, Chester Wilson, were indicted in June 2021 on charges they shepherded a new real estate development through the City Hall approval process beginning in 2016 and were given home improvement perks from a developer seeking to influence them.
Read at Chicago Tribune
[
add
]
[
|
|
]