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The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois. It consists of 50 alderpersons elected from 50 wards to serve four-year terms. [ 1 ] The council is called into session regularly, usually monthly, to consider ordinances, orders, and resolutions whose subject matter includes code changes ...
(The Center Square) – Although the Chicago City Council passed a budget for 2025 this week, the city’s financial problems are not going away. Chicago taxpayers are looking at a billion-dollar ...
(The Center Square) – Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago City Council still don’t have a budget agreement. Reports surfaced early Friday that the mayor did not have enough votes to pass a ...
Generally speaking, the mayor and city departments comprise the executive branch of the city government, and the city council comprises the legislative branch. [3] However, the mayor does have some formal legislative functions such as being the presiding officer of the council and being able to break tie votes, and informally has dominated legislative activity since the late 19th century.
City council elections in Chicago have been formally nonpartisan since 1920. Nevertheless, many alderpersons have had, [parties 1] and continue to have, de facto partisan affiliations that are reflected in this list. This list is organized by which side of the Chicago River the wards were on as of 1923.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is on the defensive after all seven members of the Chicago Board of Education announced their resignations Friday, an unprecedented moment in the city's history, in ...
The city owned market hall held city council business on its second floor, with shops below until 1853. A new combined city hall and county courthouse was then constructed in the public square made by Randolph, LaSalle, Washington, and Clark Streets (this building, which later burned, is sometimes referred to as, Old Chicago Courthouse).
The Chicago City Council voted Wednesday in favor of a zoning designation that was needed for the quantum park to move forward. The Chicago Plan Commission approved the proposed development last ...