On February 25, 1975, Chris Cohen was reelected with 63% of the vote also requiring no contest in the subsequent April 1, 1975 runoff.
Reaction included the claim from 49th Ward Alderman Paul T. Wigoda who was also law partner of Thomas E. Keane.
Wigoda charged that Alderman Cohen planned to quit the majority faction in the Chicago City Council that normally sided with Mayor Richard J.
Eleven months after the election of Jimmy Carter as President of the United States, Cohen was named Midwest Regional Director of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to replace attorney Richard E. Friedman, a Republican, who had resigned the position.
Cohen resigned from the City Council and was sworn in by U.S. District Court Judge Joel Flaum as Regional Director of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Cohen was succeeded as 46th Ward Alderman by Ralph Axelrod in 1977, by Jerome M. Orbach, Helen Shiller in 1987 and by James Cappleman in 2011.
He lived in Gad Hill Settlement house and worked for United Charities Legal Aid.
Joseph R. Kerwin Chicago City Council Member 46th Ward Succeeded by Ald.