My community service program volunteer and assigned court convicts tend to Logan Square; painting, weeding, cleaning garbage and graffiti.
Working with Clean and Green volunteers at Bucktown's Erhler Park.
Clean and Green work in South Lakeview neighborhood with the members of SLVN.
Talking to Carol Marin about city services.
Adding a new bench to our new green space next to the WPB Library with the boys and BCO.
Alderman Waguespack and son with Mike Novak at the Chicago Recycling Coalition panel event 2015
Asking CPS Administrators questions about education issues at the City Council Education Committee.
Helping out at the Runaway Safeline Thanksgiving dinner for youth - Pastor Abrahamson, Dir. Maureen Blaha and Ald. Tunney.
Honoring Chicago Police at the 2015 Gold Star Families Memorial.
Proud to stand with AK at his citizenship ceremony
Reading to children at the Lincoln Belmont Library
Bike enforcement with CPD and Bike Ambassadors at the Damen/Milwaukee/North Ave intersection.
With members of the Progressive Caucus, Alderman Sawyer and Alderman Munoz.
Neighborhood watch group patrolling North Avenue in the early morning
Neighborhood Street Cleaning
Digging out fire hydrants after the blizzard of 2011
32nd Ward Clean-Up Meet-Up Crew
Leon Despres Award from the IVI-IPO
At the Polish Museum of America with my fellow Aldermen
Annual Seniors Thanksgiving Dinner
Supporting the LGBT community in the Pride Parade
Receiving the award for Defender of Public Education from the CTU
Ellyn Fortino, Progress Illinois
The Chicago City Council’s Finance Committee advanced a proposed ordinance Monday aimed at strengthening the city’s financial transparency and accountability, the same day it authorized $600 million in new borrowing.
Chicago City Council Progressive Reform Caucus
The Chicago City Council Progressive Caucus on Wednesday will introduce a major regulatory Ordinance designed to create oversight and transparency for debt transactions and untested financial arrangements like the so-called “toxic” interest rate swap deals that have plagued the City in recent years.
DON BABWIN, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A task force Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel established to look into police practices said the department must acknowledge its racist past and overhaul the way it handles excessive force allegations, as City Council members neared a final vote on Emanuel’s hand-picked choice for chief — an African-American with 27 years on the force.
Chicago is facing a fiscal crisis, but it is one that can be fixed.
Last Wednesday, I voted “no” on the Emanuel Administration’s proposed 2016City budget. I did it because I have grave concerns about our city’s financial future that I feel strongly this budget failed to responsibly address. Chicago remains one of the wealthiest cities in our country, but such wealth cannot continue to be squandered. Our City Council Progressive Caucus, which I chair, has been advocating for common-sense ideas to direct some of these funds toward crucial programs and services, easing the burden on working families without selling off public assets and privatizing services and jobs that end up costing us more each year.
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