Chastity Wells-Armstrong

Biography Wells-Armstrong was raised on the east side of Kankakee and earned an associate degree from Kankakee Community College and a B.A. and M.A. from Governors State University. After school, she worked as deputy district director for Illinois Democratic Congressman Bill Foster, she served as board vice president for the Harbor House Domestic Violence Shelter, and as education chairwoman of the Kankakee County Branch of the NAACP. In the April 4, 2017 mayoral election, she defeated two-term mayor Republican Nina Epstein (the city's first female mayor) by a vote of 1,918 to 1,703 with 2nd Ward alderman Jim Stokes running as an Independent a distant third with 455 votes. She was sworn in on May 1, 2017. On April 6, 2021, she was defeated by 6th Ward Republican Alderman Christopher Curtis.

On June 8, 2021, she was appointed by the Maywood Board of Trustees in a 5–2 vote as the next village manager of Maywood, Illinois; she was sworn in after the vote. She replaced Willie Norfleet Jr. On June 3, 2022, the Maywood Board of Trustees voted 5–2 to suspend Chasity Wells-Armstrong as Village Manager.