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I consult: comms + strategy Former: @daniellaspata I ✍️ : #city #ethics #tech I 🚴: https://t.co/0ujP2NnGVj I 🎙️: @DeviceVirtue I 🧡 #Chicago #ChiDocumenters
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Apr 18 56 tweets 19 min read
Happy Thursday! Today I'll be live tweeting the April meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission—a committee originally established in 1909 to implement the Burnham Plan for Chicago. It's scheduled to begin at 10a.
@CHIdocumenters #documenters @CHIdocumenters These days the commission reviews of proposals that involve Planned Developments (PDs), the Lakefront Protection Ordinance, Planned Manufacturing Districts (PMDs), Industrial Corridors and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts.

These can be hours-long meetings.
Mar 14 31 tweets 6 min read
Good Morning! Today at 11a I’ll be live-tweeting the Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards at Chicago City Council. #chidocumenters @CHIdocumenters The Zoning committee was formerly headed by Ald Carlos Rosa, who resigned Nov 2023 after allegations of bullying Ald. Emma Mitts as the mayor’s floor leader.
Feb 5 37 tweets 7 min read
Good Morning! *cough* re-engaging here on Twitter today Feb 5 at 11a to cover the Chicago City Council Committee on Police & Fire chaired by Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th Ward). @CHIdocumenters #chidocumenters @CHIdocumenters The agenda for this meeting can be found here. The agenda includes an ordinance proposal from Ald. @MattMartinChi to study police deployment: what neighborhoods and when officers are deployed …storagev1.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/meetingattachm…
Mar 9, 2020 23 tweets 8 min read
Good Morning! I am live-tweeting from Chicago City Hall today —covering Committee on Transportation and Public Way for #ChiDocumenters @CHIdocumenters This is the City Council committee that oversees the Chicago Transit Authority (@cta)—our favorite L trains—as well as street naming and things like approving a business if it wants to use a sidewalk.
Feb 7, 2020 16 tweets 11 min read
Read this. I want to make some observations about these kinds of stories. I have long experience with Christian leadership that disappoints or abuses in more intimate church & community settings. christianitytoday.com/news/2020/febr… via @CTmagazine @CTmagazine I always liked @STimmis book Total Church, and thought it described missional communities that lived more vibrantly than your average evangelical “show up on Sunday and watch a screen.” Closer relationships and strong sense of gospel mission. I was raised on this kind of ministry