Chris Taliaferro · Chicago

Three clips, newest first

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Where Taliaferro sits

Ward 29 on the current City Council map

Click a ward to open its member’s page.

Chris Taliaferro sits for Ward 29. Click a ward to open its member’s page.Ward lines: Chicago Data Portal, Boundaries - Wards (2023-), p293-wvbd, fetched 2026-10-30.

Every roll call, and Taliaferro’s other bodies

Present at 20 of 20 roll calls at the City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 14, 2025 to Oct 14, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 20 of the 22 meetings we hold, through Oct 14, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Committee on Finance: 0.2 min of speech a meeting, range 0.1–0.7. In the same range as 24 other members.
Committee on Public Safety: 1.3 min of speech a meeting, range 0.1–2.9. In the same range as 16 other members.
Committee on Police and Fire: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Committee on Workforce Development: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Budget and Government Operations: talk time not compared. We could name only 1% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.
Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Workforce Development: present at 3 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights: present at 6 of 6 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

Questions

Taliaferro asked 11 questions at the eight Committee on Finance meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Taliaferro’s 11 questions to city departments at the Committee on Finance, 11 went to city attorney / law department.

Who they question: 13 questions to a department, 2 bodies · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 9, 2026.

Committee on Finance11 questions to city departments

Committee on Finance: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
City attorney / law department		11100%

Committee on Public Safety2 questions to city departments

Committee on Public Safety: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Mayor's office		2

Neighborhoods Taliaferro named

One place Taliaferro named in meetings

Lines where Taliaferro named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Chicago

Austin 3 times, the most of any official

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Boundaries - Community Areas file (City of Chicago Data Portal). A dot says the place was named, not where Taliaferro was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Taliaferro’s voice

27, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Taliaferro’s first remark.

Oct 7, 2026Committee on Workforce Development0.8 min32:37
Sep 29, 2026City Council0.1 min1:05:39
Sep 22, 2026Committee on Police and Fire5.9 min14:12
Sep 14, 2026Committee on Finance2.0 min1:19:18
Jul 15, 2026City Council0.9 min4:38:13
Jul 13, 2026Committee on Finance0.4 min5:57:45
Jun 30, 2026Committee on Police and Fire7.0 min19:11
Jun 15, 2026Committee on Finance0.2 min2:11:04
Jun 9, 2026Committee on Public Safety1.0 min57:25
May 20, 2026City Council0.9 min5:37:34

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May 18, 2026Committee on Finance0.6 min1:39:28
May 6, 2026Committee on Police and Fire15.4 min16:10
Apr 16, 2026Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight2.2 min53:03
Apr 15, 2026City Council0.4 min3:23:37
Apr 14, 2026Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights0.3 min1:46:36
Apr 13, 2026Committee on Workforce Development1.9 min23:17
Mar 18, 2026City Council0.1 min3:11:41
Mar 13, 2026Committee on Police and Fire11.0 min0:52
Mar 13, 2026Committee on Finance0.4 min50:19
Mar 3, 2026Committee on Public Safety6.8 min1:22:44
Feb 18, 2026City Council1.3 min1:49:43
Feb 11, 2026Committee on Finance0.2 min1:00:59
Feb 3, 2026Committee on Public Safety4.0 min58:13
Jan 14, 2026Committee on Finance0.2 min1:19:01
Dec 11, 2025Committee on Police and Fire3.5 min23:17
Nov 10, 2025Committee on Finance0.1 min1:40:21
Nov 6, 2025Committee on Budget and Government Operations0.1 min1:34:02

How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Taliaferro was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Chris Taliaferro’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Taliaferro said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Taliaferro or of Chicago alone.