Campaigning at the Damen Blue Line with Daniel Biss.
Presenting medal to a runner at the US Warrior Games
Speaking on behalf of our city crossing guards to keep them on the school route.
Celebrating the Cubs World Series 2016
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.
Attending the Holocaust Memorial Museum 2017 Fundraiser
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
Sun-Times Editorial Board
Last October, Mayor Emanuel broke ground for 312 RiverRun, a project connecting four North Side neighborhoods and three parks with nearly two miles of new bike and pedestrian paths along the riverfront.
WBEZ, By Jeremy Borden, Tucker Kelly, and Manny Ramos
Editor’s note: This piece was produced in partnership with City Bureau, a Chicago-based civic journalism lab.
Tearing down an old home can release dust containing asbestos or lead. Curious City and City Bureau found that Chicago rarely enforces demolition laws meant to minimize exposure to these contaminants.
CHICAGO (January 4, 2018) – Fritz Kaegi, a progressive Democrat running for the Cook County Assessor’s Office, earned the endorsements of Chicago City Council Progressive Reform Caucus Chair Ald. Scott Waguespack (32) and State Rep. Will Guzzardi (D-Chicago) on Thursday, intensifying the momentum of Kaegi’s campaign to unseat incumbent Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios.
Following is a statement from Progressive Caucus Chair Ald. Scott Waguespack (32) in response to Mayor Emanuel’s FY 2018 City budget address:
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John Cass, ChicagoTribube
Mayor Scott Waguespack of Chicago. Dig it.
Our Urban Times, Elaine Coorens
Question: Alderman Waguespack, what do you see as the top five issues for 2017 in Chicago and your 32nd Ward?
Waguespack provided the following five issues: Continue reading →
Edward T. Johnson
Superintendent of Police
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Claudia Morell, The Daily Line
In a gymnasium packed with city employees and invited community leaders at Malcolm X College Thursday night, Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled his three-part strategy to address gun violence in Chicago, leaving out one critical issue facing the city: police reform.
Aaron Cynic, Chicagoist
Mayor Rahm Emanuel outlined his plan to address Chicago violence Thursday evening to a few hundred people in a gymnasium at Malcolm X College.
“For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core,” Emanuel told the crowd. “It is not the Chicago we know and love.”
Dana Kozlov, CBS2
Creating a sustainable fiscal future for Chicago
As Chicagoans, we have big dreams about what our city could be like–and big problems in funding critical programs and institutions upon which we all rely.
If Chicago is to continue to offer a wide array of services and programs to its residents, and if our city is to grow in new ways in the coming decades, we have to face the facts: we must find ways to generate new revenue.
CHICAGO (July 25, 2016)–The Progressive Reform Caucus issued the following statement on Monday in response to the Emanuel administration’s announced plan for a new community engagement process around police reform and accountability:
“In June, we joined community and civil rights organizations in demanding that the Emanuel administration pursue a comprehensive, citywide community engagement strategy on police accountability and reform, including meetings in the neighborhoods and subject matter hearings in the City Council chambers.
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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