Commissioner Frank Avila with First Ward Alderman Manny Flores, Commissioner Avila was the only elected Hispanic to support Manny during his tough Primary and Run Off Election
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
"There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
