Former White House Chief of Staff and current Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has assembled an administration noticeably lacking in diversity, the Chicago Sun-Times reports:
In a city in which no single racial group makes up more than a third of the population, almost two of every three City Hall department heads is white. Of 30 Emanuel appointees to the highest-ranking city government positions, only five are black, and three Hispanic, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows.
"It’s abysmal," Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) says of blacks’ under-representation in the upper ranks at City Hall. "We have talked about it with the mayor, but apparently it has fallen on deaf ears."