Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series featuring candidates for Cook County’s 5th District, which includes Flossmoor.
Vernard L. Alsberry Jr. may be best known nowadays as the mayor of Hazel Crest, serving his ninth year in that position. But he grew up in the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s South Side — and, more pertinently, within Cook County’s 5th District — and attended nearby Carver High School.
When longtime…
