An open-government bonanza revealed e-mail and text messages to and from Mayor Lori Lightfoot spanning the years 2019 to 2021.

Journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky heard and assessed aldermen tussling at the December, 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In an audio interview by Dave Glowacz with Ald. Anthony Beale (9), Beale described the reasons for—and latest obstacles to—an ordinance that would let Chicago's City Council hire its own legal department.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to and evaluated November 2021 meetings of Chicago's City Council, mayor, and Police Board.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben probed a September 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben examined July meetings of the Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben examined three pre-Independence Day meetings of the full Chicago City Council.

Journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky listened to and evaluated parts of the May 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben

Lincoln Yards developer Sterling Bay has shifted its first-stage construction plans—inviting questions about public input.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listen to audio highlights of 2021's March meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

Interview with Ald. Andre Vasquez about a proposal to consider changing how Chicago redraws its ward boundaries.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben picked through Febuary 2021's contentious meetings of the full Chicago City Council.

Audio from dueling press conferences by the Chicago City Council Latino Caucus and Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who differed over a proposed independent commission for redrawing ward boundaries.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben scrutinized January 2021's meetings of the Chicago City Council finance committee, public safety committee, and the full council.

In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben analyzed audio from a December, 2020 City Council hearing about the botched police raid on the home of Anjanette Young, and from the council's full meeting.

In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben analyzed the Chicago City Council's vote on Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2021 budget ordinances.

In an audio interview, Dave Glowacz talked about ideas for the city of Chicago's 2021 budget with former city budget director Paul Vallas.

In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben and Dave react to audio from 2020's August and September meetings of the full Chicago City Council.

In an audio interview with Alderman Anthony Beale of Chicago's Ninth Ward, Dave Glowacz explored the Lightfoot administration's relationship with some of the more independent-thinking members of the City Council.