The Edgewater Community Council’s (ECC’s) board of directors has voted unanimously to hire Jason Liechty as its permanent executive director.

Liechty, a longtime resident of Edgewater, was previously the director of policy for former Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley, whose office he joined in 2002. Liechty, a Wisconsin native, joined the ECC board of directors in 2004 and had been serving as its chair since January 2008.