Desmon C. Yancy

Alderperson, Ward 5, Chicago City Council

We identified Yancy’s voice at eight meetings across four bodies.

4 of 19transcribed meetings with their voice identified

0.6min a meeting at the City Council, at least

4questions at the Committee on Budget and Government Operations

19 of 20present at roll calls, from the clerk

Also sits on 3 committees

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Next City Council meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 10:00 am · Agenda

One clip, newest first

Desmon C. Yancy · Member · Committee on Budget and Government Operations · Dec 17, 2025 · 4:34:13
“I have a question about, um, the credit rating with respect to a possible shutdown. Can someone offer some context about what those consequences look like?”

Every roll call, and Yancy’s other bodies

Present at 19 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 1. 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 Public Safety: 0.3 min of speech a meeting, range 0.0–0.9. In the same range as 14 other members.
Committee on Workforce Development: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Budget and Government Operations: talk time not compared. We could name only 9% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.
Committee on Workforce Development: present at 5 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

Questions

Yancy asked four questions at the one Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Yancy’s 4 questions to city departments at the Committee on Budget and Government Operations, 4 went to budget, finance and controller.

Who they question: 4 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 9, 2026.

Committee on Budget and Government Operations4 questions to city departments

Committee on Budget and Government Operations: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Budget, finance and controller		4

Neighborhoods Yancy named

One place Yancy named in meetings

Lines where Yancy 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

South Shore 1 time

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 Yancy was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Yancy’s voice

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

Jun 17, 2026City Council0.9 min2:11:42
May 20, 2026City Council3.8 min2:30:21
Apr 13, 2026Committee on Workforce Development4.2 min53:07
Mar 18, 2026City Council1.6 min1:18:54
Jan 7, 2026Committee on Public Safety1.8 min1:37:55
Dec 20, 2025City Council5.7 min3:08:36
Dec 17, 2025Committee on Budget and Government Operations0.7 min4:34:07
Nov 10, 2025Committee on Public Safety1.1 min1:24:10

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 Yancy was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Desmon C. Yancy’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 Yancy 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 Yancy or of Chicago alone.