Lamont J. Robinson · Chicago

Three clips, newest first

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Where Robinson sits

Ward 4 on the current City Council map

Click a ward to open its member’s page.

Lamont J. Robinson sits for Ward 4. 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 Robinson’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 Budget and Government Operations: 0.6 min of speech a meeting, range 0.2–1.4. In the same range as 27 other members.
Committee on Housing and Real Estate: 0.2 min of speech a meeting, range 0.0–0.7. In the same range as 16 other members.
Committee on Health and Human Relations: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Police and Fire: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

What they talk about

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials took the largest share of Robinson’s speech with a checked topic: 26%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the City Council and its committees. 80 of 91 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials26%

Parks and recreation3.6%

Housing and tenants1.8%

Health and behavioral health1.7%

Development and land use0.8%

Questions

Robinson asked 15 questions at the six Committee on Budget and Government Operations meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Robinson’s 11 questions to city departments at the Committee on Budget and Government Operations, 4 went to public health and mental health.

Who they question: 11 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 9, 2026.

Committee on Budget and Government Operations11 questions to city departments

Committee on Budget and Government Operations: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Public health and mental health		436%
Administration, HR, contracts and facilities		327%
Police		327%
Budget, finance and controller		19%

Neighborhoods Robinson named

One place Robinson named in meetings

Lines where Robinson 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

Loop 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 Robinson was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Robinson’s voice

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

Sep 29, 2026City Council1.7 min1:38:36
Sep 23, 2026City Council2.2 min1:07:57
Sep 9, 2026Committee on Budget and Government Operations1.4 min59:22
Jul 22, 2026City Council0.3 min1:14:06
Jul 15, 2026City Council3.9 min3:35:45
Jul 14, 2026Committee on Health and Human Relations3.4 min52:36
Jul 8, 2026Committee on Housing and Real Estate1.4 min1:30:40
Jul 7, 2026Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation2.9 min1:00:48
Jun 17, 2026City Council10.0 min1:02:02
Jun 11, 2026Committee on Health and Human Relations4.4 min1:12:01

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May 20, 2026City Council10.0 min1:59:25
May 13, 2026Committee on Budget and Government Operations1.1 min52:21
May 6, 2026Committee on Police and Fire2.7 min1:05:27
Apr 15, 2026City Council2.5 min1:09:30
Apr 9, 2026Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation4.4 min1:46:40
Mar 18, 2026City Council7.6 min1:51:44
Mar 12, 2026Committee on Housing and Real Estate0.7 min2:12:38
Feb 18, 2026City Council4.6 min1:22:09
Jan 21, 2026City Council2.4 min56:15
Dec 20, 2025City Council13.8 min2:54:12
Dec 18, 2025City Council0.5 min1:07:39
Dec 17, 2025Committee on Budget and Government Operations0.9 min4:00:45
Nov 13, 2025Committee on Budget and Government Operations2.7 min2:31:40
Nov 12, 2025Committee on Budget and Government Operations1.3 min1:25:16
Nov 5, 2025Committee on Budget and Government Operations4.6 min6:48:14

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 Robinson was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Lamont J. Robinson’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 Robinson 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 Robinson or of Chicago alone.