City Council [remote or in person]

Chicago City Council

Politics

Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023
10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m. CST

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121 N LaSalle St Chicago, IL 60602 (Directions)

City Hall, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor

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Edited and summarized by the Chicago - IL Documenters Team

Note-taking by Andrew Rogers

Public comment in support of the Amazon tax, honoring DePaul's 125th anniversary, $8 million for public housing in 26th ward

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Live reporting by DEISI BALLESTEROS

Public comment in support of extending CPS parental leave, honoring DePaul, all items passed

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Good afternoon! I’ll be live-tweeting the Chicago City Council City Council meeting for @CHIdocumenters #CHIdocumenters. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. Agenda can be found here : chicago.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&…

09:52 AM Jan 18, 2023 CST

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Watch with me here : chicityclerk.com

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The meeting has started and public will cast their order to record their attending to the meeting

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Roll call has started as well

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Speaker Mrs.Stopolis brought up to the Major’s attention to consider extending the maternal leave for CTU members. Extending it to 12 weeks or longer than 6 weeks.

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Lori lightfoot present and going over with the alderman’s thanking the Chicago public students being present at the city council meeting

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DePaul university and students are being recognized as being the true meaning of Chicago. DePaul history is being appreciated for being a part of chicago.

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DePaul brings diversity, lgbtq , public service, and many more great things to Chicago per Mayor Lori Lightfoot

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City council recognizing Simone high school and its appreciation of the athletes and coaches there. All alderman’s from different wards giving thanks to the school, and giving great entertainment to the city of Chicago. Lori lightfoot adjourning to the resolution

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City finance requesting $9 million for housing funding for the 26th ward, roll vote for an approval: 45 yay and 0 Nay

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Committees of the finance and transportation have been no objections in their items on the agenda. Madam president (Lori lightfoot) have no objections to any of the items listed under the committees.

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Chicago City Council meeting ends at 12:10 p.m. This ends my coverage for @CHIdocumenters find more information through Andrew Rogers Notes at documenters.org

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Chicago City Council

chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov

(312) 744-3166

@ChiCouncil

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The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago and consists of the Mayor and Aldermen elected from each of the City’s fifty wards. Source

If you attend a meeting in person, be prepared to go through a security checkpoint and show photo ID.

Meetings are also livestreamed at https://www.chicityclerk.com/.

At this link, scroll down to “Meeting Notices.” Look for “Watch now” and click on the link with the meeting title to go to a livestream page. If you don’t see a link for the meeting, you may be early or the meeting may be starting late. Wait a few moments and try refreshing your Internet tab.

Recordings of past City Council meetings may be found here: https://vimeo.com/user100351763/videos/sort:date.

See also: “What to Expect at a Meeting of Chicago’s City Council” via the Better Government Association.