Find out the latest legislative updates from this month’s City Council! Legislative Updates Sustainable Parkways Resolution City Council passed the Sustainable Parkways Resolution (SR2025-0016566), which is the first piece of legislation developed and drafted by the 40th Ward Environmental Board! This resolution is a first step in making the over 7,000 acres of Chicago parkways […]
Category: Council & Legislative Updates
June 2026 City Council Roundup
Posted onFind out the latest legislative updates from this month’s City Council! Legislative Updates Resolution Calling on Congress to Preserve and Expand DACA Protections DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, turned 14 years old this month. To recognize that milestone, Ald. Vasquez introduced a resolution, R2026-0025433, calling on Congress to preserve and expand DACA protections. […]
May 2026 City Council Roundup
Posted onFind out the latest legislative updates from this month’s City Council! Legislative Updates Tipped Minimum Wage Pause City Council voted to pass SO2026-0024043, which imposes a two-year pause on the One Fair Wage Ordinance. This ordinance was advanced by Ald. Burnett, after the previous freeze on the Tipped Minimum Wage was vetoed by Mayor Johnson. […]
April 2026 City Council Roundup
Posted onFind out the latest legislative updates from this month’s City Council, as well as what’s coming up in May! Legislative Updates Tipped Minimum Wage Freeze Mayor Johnson vetoed O2025-0017549, a partial repeal of the One Fair Wage Ordinance. A group of alders attempted to overturn the veto, but did not reach the required 2/3rds majority. […]
March 2026 City Council Roundup
Posted onFind out the latest legislative updates from this month’s meeting, as well as what’s coming up in City Council below! Legislative Updates Welcoming City Ordinance Investigations On January 27th, we hosted a Joint Meeting of the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Committee on Police and Fire to discuss legislation to strengthen and […]
February 2026 City Council Roundup
Posted onFind out the latest legislative updates from this month’s meeting, as well as what’s coming up in City Council below! Legislative Updates Welcoming City Ordinance Investigations On January 27th, we hosted a Joint Meeting of the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Committee on Police and Fire to discuss legislation to strengthen and […]
January 2026 City Council Roundup
Posted onWednesday, January 21st marked the first City Council meeting of 2026! Find out the latest legislative updates from this month’s meeting, as well as what’s coming up in City Council below! Legislative Updates Curfew Ald. Brian Hopkins introduced an amended curfew ordinance (O2025-0021898), which replaces the previous snap curfews with time-and-site curfews. Time-and-site curfews would […]
December City Council Roundup
Posted onCity Council is still in the midst of budget negotiations. In this month’s City Council meeting, Ald. Vasquez introduced several amendments to the budget, and we passed legislation improving the disabled parking permit process! Budget Updates At the December 10th City Council meeting, Ald. Andre Vasquez introduced amendments to this year’s budget management ordinance calling […]
Statement from Ald. Vasquez on the FY2026 Budget
Posted onThank you to all of you who have taken the time to fill out our budget survey and otherwise reach out over the past few weeks about your thoughts, questions, and concerns about this year’s budget! In this year’s budget survey results, the top five priorities our neighbors identified for this year’s budget were: housing, […]
City Council Roundup: Release of the FY26 Budget
Posted onRelease of the FY26 Budget At this week’s City Council meeting, Mayor Johnson released the administration’s budget proposal for FY26: Our team is currently analyzing the full budget, and look forward to sharing our insights with you soon! In the meantime, budget hearings begin next week, and we encourage you to tune in. You can […]
September City Council Roundup
Posted onCity Council is back from recess this month! Here’s what happened in September. Mid-Year Budget Hearings This year marked Chicago’s first mid-year budget report and mid-year hearings! During the 2025 budget hearings, Ald. Vasquez passed a number of reforms aimed at providing greater transparency, accountability, and oversight to the city’s budget process. Establishing mid-year budget […]
Statement from Ald. Andre Vasquez on the Mid-Year Budget Report Release
Posted onFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STATEMENT FROM ALD. ANDRE VASQUEZ ON THE RELEASE OF THE MID-YEAR BUDGET REPORT July 31, 2025 CHICAGO, IL – On July 30th, the Office of Budget Management released the Mid-Year Budget Report, in response to budget transparency reforms Ald. Andre Vasquez submitted to the management ordinance during last year’s budget process. During […]