John J. Hoellen Jr.

Hoellen was the son of John J. Hoellen Sr., a Republican politician who served as alderman on the Chicago City Council and Republican committeeman for the 47th ward of Chicago. His father was on the city council from 1925–33. In 1936, when Hoellen was 22-years-old and attending law school at Northwestern University, his father died. After law school, Hoellen served in the United States Military and worked in the Illinois Attorney General's Office. ==Political career==

In 1947, Hoellen won election to his father's previous aldermanic seat on the Chicago City Council. He unseated first-term incumbent Frank O. Hillborn. Like his father, Hoellen was a Republican. and at the time of his he left office, he had been the sole Republican member of the Chicago City Council. By the end of his council tenure in 1975, he was the sole remaining Republican member of the Chicago City Council. One of Richard J. Daley's fiercest enemies in the Council during his tenure, Hoellen was known for his bravado and acerbic wit. In 1961, he was one of only three alderman who voted against an urban renewal plan to bulldoze much of Little Italy to build the campus for the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1979, he was appointed by Illinois Governor James R. Thompson to the Chicago Transit Authority Board, on which he served until retiring in 1990. ==See also==