Bill Lowry is about as qualified a newcomer as you will find running for the county board this time around. Count on him moving up.
Lowry is a lawyer and a community leader, and he has served on the boards of more than dozen prominent Chicago-area organizations and institutions, including Lake Forest College, the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, and Loyola University Law School.
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His priorities are job skills training and modernizing the county’s business infrastructure. He is endorsed over former teacher and Maxwell Street vendor George Blakemore.
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