In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to and opined on 2022's February meeting of the full Chicago City Council.
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First 2022 City Council: unfinished business
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.
End of year council: brawlers over dollars, lawyers
Journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky heard and assessed aldermen tussling at the December, 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.
Council's legal appeal steels Beale
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.
November City Council: careers, ward fears, mayor tears
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.
October City Council: Inspector, gangs, and rules aplenty
In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben inspected audio from several October 2021 meetings of the Chicago City Council.
Ald. Andre Vasquez performs public-service rap at neighborhood event
Fortieth Ward Ald. Andre Vasquez was caught on video doing a public-service rap at a neighborhood event in his ward.
September City Council: sins, forks, enforcement
In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben probed a September 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.
July City Council: recondite fight on police oversight
In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben examined July meetings of the Chicago City Council.
June City Council: flections and objections
In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben examined three pre-Independence Day meetings of the full Chicago City Council.
May Council jostles housing, delays Drive strive
Journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky listened to and evaluated parts of the May 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.
Cannabis and LSD trip up April 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.
India refuters, industry polluters grip March 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.
February City Council: Who CARES about COVID-19 police costs?
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.
Ward remap flap: Latino Caucus vs. Lightfoot
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.
Crossing Metra on TIF, Council has tiffs on maps and carjacks
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.
Aldermen abrade mayor, corrade layers of failed raid
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.
Chicago 2021 budget vote: mayor players and naysayers
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.
October City Council: aldermen pump brakes on contracting and TIF
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.
Aldermen arise and compromise in late summer councils
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.