Maurice Cox, Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development

Since arriving from Detroit three years ago, Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox has been laser-focused on delivering Lightfoot’s mayor’s signature plan to leverage $750 million in “re-prioritized” public money already in the pipeline” to lure private investment not seen in decades. With the first Invest South/West project finally under construction in Auburn/Gresham and a groundbreaking-a-month planned for the foreseeable future, Cox believes Chicago is too far down the road to turn back.