Silvana Tabares
Alderperson, Ward 23, Chicago City CouncilWe identified Tabares’ voice at 15 meetings across six bodies.
Also sits on 5 committees
Next City Council meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 10:00 am · Agenda
Ward 23 on the current City Council map
Every roll call, and Tabares’ other bodies
Present at 18 of 20 roll calls at the City Council
- Committee on Public Safety: 3.3 min of speech a meeting, range 1.4–5.7. In the same range as 16 other members.
- Committee on Housing and Real Estate: 0.2 min of speech a meeting, range 0.0–0.8. In the same range as 16 other members.
- Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 41% and 70% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
- Committee on Police and Fire: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development: present at 11 of 13 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Tabares asked 11 questions at the two Committee on Housing and Real Estate meetings where we identified them
Of Tabares’ 10 questions to city departments at the Committee on Housing and Real Estate, 9 went to housing.
| Department | Share | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | 990% | |
| Mayor's office | 110% |
| Department | Share | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Planning and zoning | 5100% |
| Department | Share | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Administration, HR, contracts and facilities | 2 |
2 places Tabares named in meetings
- Garfield Ridge 1 time
- West Lawn 1 time
Every meeting where we identified Tabares’ voice
- Oct 8, 2026Committee on Public Safety4.3 min31:18
- Sep 16, 2026Committee on Housing and Real Estate0.1 min3:02:30
- Sep 1, 2026Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy6.7 min2:36:29
- Jul 9, 2026Committee on Public Safety5.5 min42:09
- Jun 29, 2026Committee on Housing and Real Estate2.0 min2:14:11
- Jun 17, 2026City Council1.5 min4:02:05
- Jun 11, 2026Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development0.7 min1:12:54
- Jun 9, 2026Committee on Public Safety12.0 min51:59
- May 20, 2026City Council6.4 min1:20:41
- May 12, 2026Committee on Public Safety3.1 min1:19:43
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- May 6, 2026Committee on Police and Fire4.1 min1:25:27
- Mar 18, 2026City Council0.4 min3:39:03
- Mar 3, 2026Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy2.9 min1:55:52
- Dec 9, 2025Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development2.5 min53:58
- Nov 10, 2025Committee on Public Safety5.0 min49:45
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 Tabares was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Silvana Tabares’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 Tabares 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 Tabares or of Chicago alone.