 At the time , Shiller was 30 years old and the editor of Keep Strong , a leftist magazine . Shiller 's first attempt at elected office was to join a multi @-@ way challenge to Axelrod . " I ran for alderman of this [ 46th ] ward in 1978 . I was terrified . I was very shy , afraid to speak to more than five people at a time , " Shiller recalled in 2003 . Shiller picked up much of the support that Young Lords founder and leader Jose Cha Cha Jimenez had in Jimenez ' unsuccessful challenge to Cohen in the 1975 elections . He was running primarily to expose the displacement of Latino and lower income areas from the lakefront and near downtown by the Richard J. Daley machine and still received 39 % of the vote coming in second in a three way race . Shiller 's base of support was the same geographic center of the ward , an area of high density , low @-@ income families between Broadway and Clark Street . Shiller campaigned pledging to work to keep the disadvantaged of Uptown from being displaced by gentrification . 
