The Chicago Housing Authority is considering six finalists for its long vacant CEO job as of early October — and Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pick for the job, retired Ald. Walter Burnett, is unlikely to get the role.

Records obtained by the Sun-Times show four public housing CEOs and executive directors and the agency’s current chief of staff, Kemena Brooks, in addition to Burnett.

The candidates include: Gregg Fortner, of the Anniston Housing Authority in Alabama; Jillian Baldwin, of the Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport in Connecticut; Keith Pettigrew, of the District of Columbia Housing Authority, and Eugene Jones Jr., currently at the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority and who was the Chicago Housing Authority’s CEO until 2019. Jones was first reported as a candidate by t

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