Susan Sadlowski Garza is a member of the Chicago City Council serving as the alderman for the 10th ward.
[2] With the encouragement of Karen Lewis, Sadlowski Garza chose to run against four term incumbent John Pope, a staunch Rahm Emanuel ally on the council, to serve as alderman for the tenth ward.
[2] Sadlowski Garza ran on a platform of an elected Chicago School Board, cracking down on petroleum coke processing plants, participatory budgeting and diversifying the ward's economy.
[8] In November 2015, she joined a protest of KCBX Terminals, a petcoke processing facility owned by the Koch brothers.
[13] Sadlowski Garza defeated Pope-proxy Fred Carrizales in the race to serve as the Democratic committeeman for her ward.
In that same election, she was a delegate for the presidential campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders from Illinois' 2nd congressional district.