
In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben picked through Febuary 2021's contentious meetings of the full Chicago City Council.
In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben picked through Febuary 2021's contentious meetings of the full Chicago City Council.
Audio from dueling press conferences by the Chicago City Council Latino Caucus and Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who differed over a proposed independent commission for redrawing ward boundaries.
In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben scrutinized January 2021's meetings of the Chicago City Council finance committee, public safety committee, and the full council.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben analyzed audio from a December, 2020 City Council hearing about the botched police raid on the home of Anjanette Young, and from the council's full meeting.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben analyzed the Chicago City Council's vote on Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2021 budget ordinances.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben deconstructed audio from October 2020's meetings of the Chicago City Council finance committee, and the full council.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben and Dave react to audio from 2020's August and September meetings of the full Chicago City Council.
In an audio interview with Alderman Anthony Beale of Chicago's Ninth Ward, Dave Glowacz explored the Lightfoot administration's relationship with some of the more independent-thinking members of the City Council.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben give their persepectives on audio from the July 2020 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben and Dave listened to audio from the June 2020 meeting of the full Chicago City Council—and part of a "confidential" conference between the mayor and alderman.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben and Dave comment on aldermanic and mayoral ripostes at the May 2020 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.
The Chicago City Council approved tax-increment financing for Mayor Lori Lightfoot's INVEST South/West initiative, but aldermen in affected wards aren't on board.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben listen to the first-ever videoconference meeting of the full Chicago City Council—and a half-dozen aldermen who resisted an emergency powers ordinance proposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben listen to aldermanic harangues at the Chicago City Council's last public hearing before the city's "shelter in place" edict.
Funding for Mayor Lori Lightfoot's INVEST South/West project moved to full City Council approval, but with aldermanic hurdles along the way.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben listened to audio clips from the Chicago City Council's February, 2020 meeting—including a rich aldermanic debate on a city lawsuit settlement.
In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben and Dave discussed the City Council's dramatic Jan. 2020 debate of a resolution regarding businesses having LGBT owners—and other council actions.
In an audio interview with freshman Alderman Daniel La Spata of Chicago's 1st Ward, Dave Glowacz explores how new City Council members get the training and orientation needed to do their jobs.
A report from the Chicago mayor's office details the ways in which city departments defer to "aldermanic prerogative".
The city of Chicago has finally released the documents that would, with a City Council OK, make the Lincoln Yards development a legal reality.