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    Joanne Trapani with ACT UP’s Danny Sotomayor at a heated 1989 meeting with Mayor Richard Daley on AIDS funding. Photo by Lisa Howe-Ebright
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    State Rep. Larry McKeon, Jan Dee, Joanne Trapani and Judge Tom Chiola. Windy City Times archive photo
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    Longtime lesbian political activist, and one-time Oak Park Village President Joanne Trapani with activist Mike Savage circa early 1990s. Photo by Tracy Baim
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    Joanne Trapani. Windy City Times photo from 2001
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    Joanne E. Trapani
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    Then-Ald. Luis Gutierrez, Joanne Trapani and Dr. Ron Sable in 1989 at the IMPACT LGBT political organization’s gala. Photo by Lisa Howe-Ebright
According to Facebook posts, Joanne E. Trapani, one-time village president of Oak Park, has passed away.

Please check back here for obituary.

Also, read about her life and work in the community at

Windy City Times, April 11, 2001, Trapani becomes state’s first lesbian mayor: http://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/SUBURBAN-OAK-PARK-MAKES-HISTORY-AGAIN-AS-TRAPANI-BECOMES-STATES-1st-LESBIAN-MAYOR/24852.html.

The Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame website: http://chicagolgbthalloffame.org/trapani-joanne/.

Chicago Gay History, video remarks of Carole Goodwin: http://chicagogayhistory.com/movie.html?vid=6624.