Talk:Chicago City Council

message: Chicago aldermen are technically nonpartisan, so the current partisan breakdown of the aldermen isn't that helpful. Should it be altered to reflect the existence of the Socialist Caucus as a distinctive bloc on the council, along with the 1-2 "Republican independents" (Napolitano and Sposato)?
I'm not sure what to do about the partisan identification, but I think it would be helpful to indicate caucus memberships once they are formalized. So this would include not only the (potential) socialist caucus, but also the progressive, black, Latino, LGBT, and women's caucuses. Kumar R (talk) 21:28, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Should the Socialists be represented as a separate "party" on the chart?

message: Napolitano is listed as a Republican in this article, but on his wiki page it states he's independent. Should we change his political party listing to independent?Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 01:37, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Anthony Napolitano political party?

message: It doesn't seem particularly impartial to have the sentence 
Between 1974 and 2009, a total of 30 Chicago aldermen have been indicted and convicted of federal crimes such as bribery, extortion, embezzlement, conspiracy, mail fraud and income tax evasion. Three additional aldermen were indicted for similar offenses but two died before federal prosecutors could bring them to trial and one, Anthony Laurino (39th) was too sick to stand trial.[1]
positioned as it currently is.  
Compare Boston's City Council page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Council
::I don't think it's a "corruption focus" - it's only 2 sentences, 1 paragraph. These extraordinary facts on indictment and conviction rates belong in the lead since they are a key aspect of notability WP:LEAD. These statistics are verifiable WP:V from reliable sources WP:RS and referenced WP:CS. Burying them later in the article or deleting them would be more of a violation of WP:NPOV. Hugh (talk) 16:51, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corruption Focus ? 

message: Why do any clicks on the Alderman Vi Daley link to the page itself?
i need a way to write about the alderman!!! i would like to write about Vi Daley :) someone please help
::The link has now been opened up for editing. Someone had linked it back to the same article. --Gerald Farinas 22:32, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why do any clicks on the Alderman Vi Daley link to the page itself? 

message: The position of alderman is technically non-partisan, and candidates have to get the parties to certify that they aren't members. Should we amend the chart of aldermen to not assign political affiliation? ~E$ 18:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a reliable, verifiable source for this? Int21h (talk) 19:14, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alderman Parties? 

message: I wanted to research former aldermen in the 43rd ward -- is there a template that could be added to Chicago city council pages or something? Victor Grigas (talk) 06:07, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template for Aldermen? 

message: This 1904 image is public domain and yet is of such low resolution as be functionally useless. No text is readable in the image. It should be removed from the article or reproduced at an informative resolution.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wistungsten (talk • contribs) 05:34, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  1904 Ward Map 

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message: Me and another Wikipedian both noticed at the same time just now that the number of DemSocs listed on the Council was five, rather than six. That error has been corrected, but can someone make a new parliament map for the Council? Also, the DemSocs should be positioned to the left of the Democrats.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/parliamentdiagram/parlitest.php
TotusFloweo1917 (talk) 10:36, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Parliamentary Map 

message: The Chicago City Council is a nonpartisan body. However, like most Americans, they generally affiliate with a political party. There seems to be some confusion so I'd like to lay out my sources for some of the elected officials.
* Rossana Rodriguez. In her IVI-IPO questionnaire and according to Russ Stewart's column on committeeman elections she is not running for Democratic Committeeman despite being the Alderman. A Google search does not contradict these sources (as much as I hate calling Russ Stewart a source on anything.
* Maria Hadden. In her IVI-IPO questionnaire she does not explicitly identify a political party. Neither does she do so on her campaign Facebook page. There is a fundraising page that identifies her as a Democrat, but I don't believe that meets Wikipedia:Reliable sources.
--Mpen320 (talk) 05:12, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partisan Composition 

message: To save time if our current consensus remains constant. I kept the community areas. I don't love it, but I know it took a lot of time and a lot of effort and to not include without justification feels wrong.--Mpen320 (talk) 03:07, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I appreciate that. I realize the community areas column looks pretty unwieldy. I was trying to achieve something similar to the "Residence" and "Borough" columns on the New York City Council page, as I liked how they provide a sense of where the districts are located. Maybe it would seem less unwieldy if we listed fewer community areas per ward? Kumar (talk) 01:52, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do you think a column in which community area the alderman resides combined with an indication of predominantly in which region on this map their ward is? I'm not going to push for strong changes one way or the other.--Mpen320 (talk) 02:32, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: } Sorry for the very late reply. I'm open to the community area of residence + region idea -- do we have a good source for aldermen's residence information? The only thing I can think of is election filings, but it would take quite a bit of work to collect that address data and convert it into community areas. As a short-term fix for now, I can just reduce the number of community areas mentioned. Kumar (talk) 03:47, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . It's not a top priority to me. I think it took a lot of time and effort so it should stay SOMEWHERE in the article. You are right that election filings (which would be a IL Board of Elections search) would be the only surefire way, BUT I want to point out often it is on their official or campaign biographies. Personally, I'd feel weird linking to their actual home addresses. I know it's public information, but still.--Mpen320 (talk) 06:43, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree that it feels weird to link to their home addresses. If I find some time in the future I'll try to grab the residence information from bios, etc. In the meantime I'll leave the composition table as it stands right now. Kumar (talk) 17:29, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Council Member Section 

message: I know there's previous discussions above, but I wanted to open a discussion about adding a column to the composition table with Caucuses. I think it has become significant enough and would help the informational purposes of this page, as is the mission of Wikipedia. What y'all think?
Jccali1214 (talk) 00:54, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caucuses in composition table