Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas added her name Sunday to the seemingly endless list of local politicians who say they just might make a run at replacing Mayor Richard M. Daley.
“I’m considering it right now,” Pappas told the Chicago News Cooperative. “Lots of people have been calling me, trying to get me in. At the present time, I’m in the race for county treasurer.”
Pappas, who has been treasurer since 1998, is up for re-election in the November general election. She finished a distant fourth, with 6 percent of the vote, in the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate.
At the same time that the field of potential mayoral candidates grew, State Rep. John Fritchey (D-Ill.) sent out a news release Sunday afternoon saying he had decided against running for mayor.