to the appointment for the sole purpose of voting to install a young white aide of the governor to the directorship of the state sports authority. The governor's candidate, a former television reporter, won the position with Young's support in a contentious vote of the authority's board despite her demonstrated history of financial mismanagement including filing for personal bankruptcy due to excessive credit card expenditures to luxury retailers such as Bloomingdales. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his appointees had sought to appoint the African American former CFO of Sara Lee Corp, a Yale graduate and criticized the move to install an individual whose incompetence could subject Illinois' taxpayers to significant financial liability Young stayed on the board until 2015. References Footnotes Bibliography External links Young Lords in Lincoln Park 1923 births 2016 deaths American health activists Feinberg School of Medicine alumni Physicians from Chicago 20th-century American physicians 21st-century American physicians Young Lords