Block Club Chicago – Chicago’s Progressive Alderpeople Retain Seats, Look To Expand Influence On City Council — And Even Mayor’s Race

By Joe Ward, Alex V. Hernandez, and Maxwell Evans, March 6, 2023

Progressives have a laundry list of goals they’d like to accomplish in the next City Council.

Those include the passage of the Bring Chicago Home ordinance, a homelessness prevention measure as well as the police reform bill known as “Treatment Not Trauma.” The revival of the city’s Department of Environment is also a priority, multiple returning alderpeople said.