Clem Balanoff is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 16, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was born April 16, 1953 in Chicago to a politically active family. His father Clem Balanoff, Sr. was a prominent union organizer and his mother Miriam Balanoff would become a circuit court judge. In 1981, Clem moved to California for five years, where he worked as an aide for Congressman Matthew Martínez and later Congressman Esteban Torres. He returned to Illinois to take a job as the 10th Ward Superintendent, responsible for garbage pickup and other city services. A year later when Ed Vrdolyak defected to the Republican Party, Balanoff became the Democratic Committeeman for the 10th ward.
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention Balanoff read the vote totals for Senator Sanders’ Illinois campaign. As of August 2017, Balanoff is the executive director for the Illinois chapter of Our Revolution; a pro-Sanders organization. Balanoff served as the co-chair of Ameya Pawar’s campaign for Chicago City Treasurer in the 2019 municipal election and will serve as the campaign manager of Abdelnasser Rashid’s campaign for the Cook County Board of Review in 2020.
