The city of Chicago announced last week that it's about to launch a thorough study of police staffing, resulting in department-wide recommendations to be shared publicly. Aldermen and the public have been kept mostly in the dark.

Fifteen City Council members called a special April 1 meeting to oust Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez as housing committee chair. In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben analyzed the raucous gathering.

At a January meeting of the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability, Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling defended the controversial Shotspotter gunfire detection system.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben evaluated audio from September, 2023 meetings of the Chicago City Council.

In an audio piece, a Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability member questioned police workforce allocation—a matter also highlighted in a report by Mayor Brandon Johnson's transition team.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben probed audio from 2023's May meetings of the full Chicago City Council.

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.