Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez
Alderperson, Ward 33, Chicago City CouncilRaised ICE and immigration enforcement at five meetings.
Chairs the Committee on Health and Human Relations; sits on 6 more committees
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- City Council · Alderperson
- Committee on Health and Human Relations · Chair
- Committee on Housing and Real Estate · Member
- Committee on Budget and Government Operations · Member
- Committee on Finance · Member
- Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights · Member
- Committee on Workforce Development: Subcommittee on Youth Employment · Member
- Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy · Member
Next City Council meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 10:00 am · Agenda
Three clips, newest first
We can tax wealthy corporations to improve our lives and have some reliable progressive revenue that is so deeply needed, or we can decide that working people are going to pay.Open the meeting at 2:19:25
Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.
Issues Sanchez raised, by number of meetings
- ICE and immigration enforcement5 meetings
- Head tax and budget revenue3 meetings
Where Sanchez sits
Ward 33 on the current City Council map
Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez sits for Ward 33. 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 Sanchez’s other bodies
Present at 20 of 20 roll calls at the City Council
PresentAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call
Official roll call, from the clerk →- Committee on Housing and Real Estate: 0.9 min of speech a meeting, range 0.2–2.1. In the same range as 17 other members.
- Committee on Budget and Government Operations: 0.4 min of speech a meeting, range 0.0–1.3. In the same range as 25 other members.
- Committee on Finance: 0.3 min of speech a meeting, range 0.0–0.9. In the same range as 22 other members.
- Committee on Health and Human Relations: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
- Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Workforce Development: Subcommittee on Youth Employment: talk time not compared. Seated for only 1 meeting in 12 months.
- Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights: present at 5 of 6 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Questions
Sanchez asked 10 questions at the three Committee on Budget and Government Operations meetings where we identified them
Of Sanchez’s 9 questions to city departments at the Committee on Budget and Government Operations, 5 went to human services, aging, youth.
| Department | Share | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Human services, aging, youth | 556% | |
| Budget, finance and controller | 444% |
Meetings
Every meeting where we identified Sanchez’s voice
- Oct 5, 2026Committee on Finance1.6 min1:43:47
- Oct 1, 2026Committee on Health and Human Relations14.2 min31:20
- Sep 23, 2026City Council3.7 min2:16:29
- Sep 16, 2026Committee on Housing and Real Estate2.7 min2:36:48
- Jul 16, 2026Committee on Budget and Government Operations3.0 min2:28:18
- Jun 29, 2026Committee on Housing and Real Estate3.8 min1:58:44
- Jun 24, 2026Committee on Workforce Development: Subcommittee on Youth Employment7.1 min2:40:39
- Jun 17, 2026City Council0.7 min3:08:04
- Jun 11, 2026Committee on Health and Human Relations7.0 min20:25
- Jun 11, 2026Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights6.9 min1:38:13
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- May 11, 2026Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy2.0 min1:44:03
- May 7, 2026Committee on Health and Human Relations10.1 min27:14
- Apr 2, 2026Committee on Budget and Government Operations0.1 min1:39:52
- Mar 18, 2026City Council3.5 min35:09
- Mar 12, 2026Committee on Housing and Real Estate5.0 min1:15:55
- Mar 10, 2026Committee on Health and Human Relations15.5 min9:23
- Feb 18, 2026City Council1.6 min2:40:57
- Feb 11, 2026Committee on Finance0.1 min38:51
- Jan 27, 2026Committee on Health and Human Relations19.2 min21:51
- Jan 21, 2026City Council1.3 min2:52:15
- Dec 20, 2025City Council6.0 min2:19:10
- Dec 16, 2025Committee on Finance3.4 min2:06:29
- Dec 10, 2025City Council0.1 min1:32:20
- Oct 30, 2025Committee on Budget and Government Operations5.8 min1:24:19
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
We identified Sanchez’s voice at 24 meetings across eight bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Sanchez was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez’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 Sanchez 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 Sanchez or of Chicago alone.