Journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky listened to and evaluated parts of the May 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben assessed several April 2021 meetings of the Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listen to audio highlights of 2021's March meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

Interview with Ald. Andre Vasquez about a proposal to consider changing how Chicago redraws its ward boundaries.

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 recorded audio, we hear Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson warn members of the City Council about departures of key officials—and the effect on reform of the Chicago Police Department.

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.

The city of Chicago's spending on the COVID-19 emergency has been held to account by a little-known aldermanic working group. But its future is uncertain.

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.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot battles, along with the pandemic, aldemen's frustrations with her emergency powers.

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.