The Fourth District of Chicago is rather new to the Chicago land made up
largely of Hispanics and Latinos. This District like many others face major
problems of crime, health care and education. Democratic representative Luis V.
Gutierrez represents the answer to these and other problems. Who is Luis
Gutierrez? Is this man making a difference? What are his issues? Is Luis doing
his job? What is his impact on the system? These are question that need
answering. These problems need solving is Luis Gutierrez really the answer?
Gutierrez was born December 10 1954, in Chicago Illinois. He received a
Bachelors degree from Northeastern Illinois University, in 1975. His
professional experience is as follows: teacher in Puerto Rico from, 1977 to
1978; social worker for Chicago's Department of children and family Services,
from 1979 to 1983; An advisor to Chicago mayor Harold Washington, from 1984 to
1987; Chicago city Alderman from 1986 to 1992; President of the Pro. Tem, from
1989 to 1992.
Luis V. Gutierrez was elected to represent Illinois district four in
1992. The congressional committees he serves on include Banking and Financial
Services; General Overnight and Investigations; Housing and Community
opportunity; Veteran Affairs and Hospital and Health Care. Mr. Gutierrez's
addresses in Washington and in Chicago are: 408 Longworth House office Building,
Washington Dc 20515; 3181 North Elston Avenue, Chicago 60618; 1715 west 47th
street, Chicago 60609; 3659 Halsted Chicago 60609; and 2132 West 21st street
Chicago 60608.
Luis Gutierrez start the road to politics by being a strong supporter on
our former late mayor Harold Washington. With the backing of Washington,
Gutierrez won the race for Alderman in 1986. After the death of Washington,
Gutierrez soon supported Richard Daley for mayor and was appointed to chairman
of the housing committee. Gutierrez was now able to instate his "New Homes for
Chicago plan". This plan called for the city to sell empty spaces of land to
housing contractors to construct homes for as little as one dollar.
In 1992, Gutierrez ran for representative of the fourth district
election, Gutierrez opponent was Juan Soliz. During the campaign Gutierrez
focused more on crime, while Soliz focused on many issues such as: trade and
health care. Gutierrez soon showed to be the candidate for his people of all
ethnic groups. He became known in the area for the following passage, "If you
work hard, sweat and toil and play by the rules, you will be rewarded...with
clean street, safer and better schools, the opportunity to send your kids to
college." He won sixty percent to forty percent and sixty-four percent to
thirty-four percent in the primary. In the district, Gutierrez is well respected,
he has been running various programs to better the fourth district such as
recycling drives (the blue bag), an anti-graffiti plan and citizen enrollment
meetings.
A little history of how district four came about; District four is made
up primarily of Hispanic Americans. There was once a problem with congressional
district. It was meant to have its majority Hispanic but, since the south side
Mexican-Americans and the north side Puerto Rican-Americans, ...