Sharon Bush

Commissioner, Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners

We identified Bush’s voice at two meetings.

2 of 8transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Talk time, and Bush’s other bodies

Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners: talk time not compared. Fewer than four members can be compared fairly.

Neighborhoods Bush named

One place Bush named in meetings

Lines where Bush 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 Bush was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Bush’s voice

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

Apr 8, 2026Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners3.8 min36:44
Jan 21, 2026Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners1.5 min27:27

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