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Feb 5, 2009 6:05 am US/Central

Aviation Commissioner May Go To CTA

Richard Rodriguez Is A Fast-Rising Star

CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ― Aviation Commissioner Richard Rodriguez -- another of Mayor Richard M. Daley's fast-rising young stars -- is a leading candidate to replace Ron Huberman as CTA president, City Hall sources said Wednesday.

Sources said the mayor's top choice for the CTA post, vacated when Huberman was appointed CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, was his 2007 campaign manager, Terry Peterson. But Peterson reportedly had no interest in leaving his job as vice president of government affairs at Rush University Medical Center.

Rodriguez, 38, rose to the top of the list because he comes from the same energetic, no-nonsense management mold as Huberman.

Rodriguez, a former field attorney for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 24-hour disaster team, has had a meteoric rise at City Hall, serving in top jobs at the Chicago Housing Authority and the Department of Aviation before being placed in charge of three departments in the last three years: Construction and Permits, Buildings and Aviation.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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