- courtesy the candidate
- Amy Crawford
Amy Crawford’s run for 46th Ward alderman has been a long time coming. A resident of the ward for nearly a decade, she has long been involved in community and advocacy groups supporting childhood education and LGBT rights. In 2008 she took time off from her clerkship with a federal judge to work on Obama’s campaign, which she says was an exciting and transformational time that ignited a political fire.
“I want to be clear about saying that Uptown is generally a safe neighborhood,” she says. “But it’s just a fact that random violence, particularly gun violence, is really scary for families. We want to make this a neighborhood that is family friendly where people want to move here and also put down roots here.”
“We just get used to the new normal basically every day,” Crawford says. “[My wife’s] known that I have a deep passion to help others and be involved with the community. It may be a pain in the butt now for her, but it’s something she really respects and may actually love about me.”
