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Nedra Sims Fears

Director, Governor of Illinois appointee, Chicago Transit Board

We identified Fears’ voice at one meeting.

1 of 3transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Next Chicago Transit Board meeting: Thu, Nov 12 · Clerk’s calendar

Talk time, and Fears’ other bodies
Neighborhoods Fears named

One place Fears named in meetings

Lines where Fears 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
  • Chatham 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 Fears was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Fears’ voice

One, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Fears’ first remark.

  1. Sep 22, 2026Chicago Transit Board13.8 min16:47
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Fears was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Nedra Sims Fears’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 Fears said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Fears or of Chicago alone.