City Government Reform

LWV Chicago’s Chicago in Focus lecture series, hosted in partnership with the Union League Club, recently featured a talk by Joe Ferguson. Ferguson is Chicago’s former Inspector General and the Founding Executive Director of (re)Chicago, a strategic initiative to assess and address flaws in Chicago’s governance structure.

Ferguson, who also serves as a lecturer at Loyola Law School and the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, discussed (re)Chicago’s goals of lasting structural reform of City government grounded in participatory democracy.

We gathered at the Union League Club (65 W Jackson Blvd) on November 16. The event was also presented virtually.

The Chicago in Focus lecture series seeks to highlight and explore the most important issues facing Chicagoans today.