{"id":716870,"date":"2010-04-14T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:17:07","slug":"aldermen-sign-off-on-daleys-choice-for-park-board-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/716870","title":{"rendered":"Aldermen sign off on Daley&#8217;s choice for park board president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 12:42 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Aldermen today approved Mayor Richard Daley&#8217;s selection of a Chicago ophthalmologist and philanthropist for the Chicago Park District board.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bryan Traubert, who&#8217;s married to wealthy prominent Chicagoan Penny Pritzker, now will be considered by fellow park commissioners as their new chairman, though that&#8217;s considered a formality.\n<\/p>\n<p>Traubert,<br \/>\n 55, is poised to replace Gery Chico, a<br \/>\nlongtime Daley troubleshooter who&#8217;s been tapped to lead the City<br \/>\nColleges of Chicago board. Traubert is on the Noble Street Charter<br \/>\nSchools board. And he&#8217;s chairman of Marwen, an organization that<br \/>\nprovides art instruction and college counseling to Chicago Public<br \/>\nSchools students.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p>He also chairs Chicago Run, which coordinates<br \/>\nfitness programs for CPS students. Traubert recently told the Tribune he thinks it&#8217;s that<br \/>\ndedication to getting children in shape &#8212; rather than his connection<br \/>\nto the Pritzker family &#8212; that put him on the mayor&#8217;s radar. Pritzker<br \/>\nserved as national finance chair for President Barack<br \/>\nObama&#8217;s successful 2008 campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 12:42 p.m. Aldermen today approved Mayor Richard Daley&#8217;s selection of a Chicago ophthalmologist and philanthropist for the Chicago Park District board. Dr. Bryan Traubert, who&#8217;s married to wealthy prominent Chicagoan Penny Pritzker, now will be considered by fellow park commissioners as their new chairman, though that&#8217;s considered a formality. Traubert, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818111,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716870\/revisions\/818111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}