For months, The Daily Line has been teaming up with WBEZ and Crain’s Chicago Business to calculate how often all 50 aldermen have been absent from meetings of their assigned City Council committee meetings between May 2019 and December 2021. The resulting project, published on Monday, includes a deep dive into how the results break down, what they mean for the way the council conducts business, and what it says about power (and the lack thereof) in the City Council. In this cross-over episode with the AD Q&A podcast, Crain’s reporter A.D. Quig talks to Alex Nitkin and Erin Hegarty of The Daily Line and Claudia Morell of WBEZ about what this investigation tells us about Chicago government in 2022.
Rep. Mary Beth Canty on her first months in Springfield
Ald. Matt Martin on why Chicago should try ranked choice voting
Rep. Greg Harris on his work as House Majority Leader
Rep. Mark Batinick on his time as House Republican floor leader
Larry Suffredin on 20 years of problems solved and unsolved
Ald. Nicole Lee on her first months in office and election calculus
G-PAC CEO Kathleen Sances on where Illinois’ gun control laws can go from here
Injustice Watch’s Jonah Newman on how to vote for judges
CACC director Mamadou Diakhate on caring for Chicago’s pets and wildlife
Chelsea Laliberte Barnes on her race to flip a Republican district
Inspector General Deborah Witzburg on bad systems and good people in government
How Chicago is preparing for the June 28 Primary
Illinois Retail Merchant Association CEO Rob Karr on the state’s retail crime bill
Cook County CFO Ammar Rizki on how to spend $1 billion
Ald. Anthony Beale on the City Council’s power balance
How to fix the Department of Children and Family Services.
Chicago AIS Commissioner David Reynolds makes his exit
Cook County Commissioner Peter Silvestri on the value of centrism
Ald. Silvana Tabares on ward remap and the 23rd Ward
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