This article is about Ray Suarez (politician). For the journalist, see Ray Suarez.
Regner E. "Ray" Suárez (born October 26, 1946) is the former alderman of the 31st Ward of the City of Chicago; he was first elected in 1991. He was unsuccessful in the April 2015 election, and left office the next month.
Suárez held various city jobs before becoming alderman. He worked for Streets and Sanitation, in the mayor's office as an Administrative Assistant working with Development Action Grants, and Assistant Commissioner of Department of Street and Sanitation.
In 1989, he was appointed to the Illinois Job Training Coordinating Council, where he advised the governor how to spend the budget for job-training.
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Suárez was elected alderman in 1991. He was reelected in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011. He lost reelection in 2015 to Milly Santiago.
He was the chairman of Housing and Real Estate, and sits on seven other committees: Aviation, Budget and Government Operations, Buildings, Finance, Transportation and the Public Way, and Zoning.
The alderman has proposed that private businesses such as bars be required to install police surveillance cameras on their premises. "If you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?" he demanded, in response to privacy concerns.[2]
From May 2011 until May 2015, Suarez was also Chicago's Vice Mayor.[3][4]
Referencesedit
^Spielman, Fran (November 17, 2015). "Former Ald. Ray Suarez lands spot on Port Authority board". Chicago Sun Times. Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
^Keen, Judy; “Daley wants security cameras at bars”, USA Today, 14 February 2006.
^Spielman, Fran (20 May 2015). . Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015.
^Dumke, Mick (18 May 2011). "The first meeting of the new mayor and City Council is nothing if not efficient". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
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