The Chicago  City Council's meeting on Apr. 19, 2023 had some poignant, laudatory moments—captured in photographs by Inside Chicago Government.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben heard and weighed parts of the March 15, 2023 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to audio from 2023's February meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

Inside Chicago Government has provided helpful material for those voting in the 2023 Chicago municipal election.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to and evaluated meetings of the Chicago City Council that took place in October and November of 2022.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben heard and assessed parts of the September, 2022 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben evaluated audio from 2022's July meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

The Chicago City Council approved the Cicero/Stevenson TIF District and $80 million in public subsidy—and members of the public were not consulted in the district's creation.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to audio from meetings of the Chicago City Council in June, 2022.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben heard audio from and remarked on six sessions of the full Chicago City Council that took place in May, 2022.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to and evaluated parts of City Council meetings that took place in April and May of 2022.

A newly disclosed but unused cache of city money could have boosted public input into the redrawing of Chicago's ward boundaries.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben evaluated audio from March, 2022 meetings of the Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben evaluated the Chicago City Council's "unfinished business" that was in evidence at its January, 2022 meetings.

An open-government bonanza revealed e-mail and text messages to and from Mayor Lori Lightfoot spanning the years 2019 to 2021.

Journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky heard and assessed aldermen tussling at the December, 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In an audio interview by Dave Glowacz with Ald. Anthony Beale (9), Beale described the reasons for—and latest obstacles to—an ordinance that would let Chicago's City Council hire its own legal department.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to and evaluated November 2021 meetings of Chicago's City Council, mayor, and Police Board.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben probed a September 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben examined July meetings of the Chicago City Council.