What You Don't Know About Mayor Daley, Roller Skates, And Derby Burns

CHICAGO, IL - Nothing livens up one of Mayor Daley’s dull City Council meetings like a troupe of badass women wearing jackets with the names “Shocka Conduit,” “Karma Geddon” and “Juanna Rumbel.”

They didn’t wear roller skates and knee pads when they arrived at City Council Wednesday, but in full regalia the members of the Windy City Rollers probably could have overpowered the sergeants at the metal detectors outside the chamber.

The Rollers, the women’s roller derby revivalists, finally got their due from the city of Chicago on Wednesday, when 48th Ward Ald. Mary Ann Smith introduced this resolution honoring the team: “WHEREAS, the sport’s popularity lost momentum after the 1970s until two women, Elizabeth Gomez a.k.a. Juanna Rumbel, and Kelly Simmons a.k.a.Sister Sledgehammer, founded the Windy City Rollers in 2004 and revived the sport in Chicago.”

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