Top Emanuel ally considers retirement from council

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's City Council floor leader said Thursday he will decide in about a week whether to retire from politics and predicted whoever is elected mayor will have their hands full with at least 15 new aldermen.

"I don't know that I'd retire from the working world, but maybe from the fishbowl world," Alderman Pat O'Connor, a 35-year council veteran, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

"Do I want spend the next four years working as hard as I have being at the beck and call of people that, otherwise, I wouldn't be hanging around with?" he said.

O'Connor said the decision on whether or not to seek re-election will be based, in part, on results of a poll and door-to-door canvassing in his North Side ward.

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