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Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering announced her campaign for reelection in the 2027 election, opening her bid with endorsements from current and former elected officials, community leaders, business owners and residents across the city.

Nancy Rotering, the mayor of Highland Park, met her statesmanship moment four years ago while participating in her town’s popular Fourth of July parade. “The sun was shining, flags were waving, and we were all dressed in red, white and blue. We were ebullient,” she recalled.

Nancy Rodkin Rotering ’85 MBA didn’t intend to go into politics. But in the early 2000s, Rotering and some of her Highland Park, Ill., neighbors went to City Hall to request a stop sign at a particularly dangerous intersection. She quickly noticed the lack of representation on the City Council — there were no young parents like herself, and only one woman. She decided to get involved.

Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering has been unanimously elected as the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus’ next chair.

Highland Park’s Nancy Rotering Honored as North American Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism Gets Underway in New Orleans

America’s mayors know it’s not a matter of if, but when their city will be attacked by targeted violence. Their phone will ring and on the other end will be another mayor who has gone through a similar horror, offering condolences and support.