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Ameya Pawar elected to Chicago City Council
Chicago, Feb 25, 2011
First Indian-American elected to Chicago City Council
Thirty year old Ameya Pawar has become the first Indian-American to be elected to the Chicago City Council.. Pawar was elected Tuesday as the alderman for the 47th Ward on Chicago's North Side that has been represented by outgoing alderman Gene Schulter for over 30 years
"It is amazing. It was really amazing," Pawar, who was a virtual unknown when he entered the race, told ABC7 after the election. Tuesday night, Pawar had not planned an Election Night party like other aldermanic candidates, the channel said. But when the numbers started coming in, he headed to Timber Lanes where the bowling alley owners were among his first supporters.
"It was a nail biter. We were nervous. We were just so hopeful. We were scared. The excitement was unbelievable," Karen Kuhn of Timber Lanes was quoted as saying. Pawar, the son
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With Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stepping aside, and a number of young progressive challengers vying for aldermanic seats, City Council could look quite different after the Feb. 26 municipal elections. Here's a look at 12 big races happening across the city —
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Before Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced in September 2018 that he would not seek a third term in office, there were already about a dozen other candidates vying to take him on. After he dropped out of the race, even more threw their hats in the ring - making the field of candidates running to be Chicago's next mayor the largest in city history.
In total, 14 mayoral hopefuls made it to the ballot after a long and contentious series of petition challenges - an old tradition of filing legal objections to opponents' petition signatures in an effort to knock the competition out of the race. They include, in order of their appearance on the ballot:
Jerry Joyce, an attorney and lobbyist who previously served as a Co
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List of Indian Americans
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Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of amerika who trace their family descent to India.[1][2] Notable Indian Americans include:
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[edit]Nobel Prize recipients
[edit]- Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011), Nobel Prize in medicin, 1968
- Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (b. 1952), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; Former President of the Royal samhälle, (2015–2020)
- Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019; Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[3]