Alderman La Spata
@aldermanlaspata.bsky.social
1st Ward Alderman. Mon-Fri 10 AM-6 PM at 1958 N Milwaukee Ave / 872-206-2685 / info@the1stward.com
🚨 New blog alert! Review my updated budget priorities, informed by resident feedback, at www.the1stward.com/budget-blog-17
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🚨 New blog alert! Review my updated budget priorities, informed by resident feedback, at www.the1stward.com/budget-blog-17
I had the pleasure of joining WBEZ yesterday morning to discuss the proposed cuts to the library in next year’s budget. Listen to the full segment: linktr.ee/aldlaspata
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I had the pleasure of joining WBEZ yesterday morning to discuss the proposed cuts to the library in next year’s budget. Listen to the full segment: linktr.ee/aldlaspata
I'll be on In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons tomorrow morning to discuss the proposed cuts to the Chicago Public Library's budget. Tune in to WBEZ at 9:00 a.m.!
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'll be on In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons tomorrow morning to discuss the proposed cuts to the Chicago Public Library's budget. Tune in to WBEZ at 9:00 a.m.!
Yesterday, I said I wouldn't vote for a budget that didn't restore the Chicago Public Library's budget and I meant it. Fund the libraries. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/l...
Librarians, Aldermen Push Back Against Proposed Library Cuts
Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed 2026 budget calls for eliminating some vacant library positions and halving the agency's collections budget from $10 million to $5 million.
blockclubchicago.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yesterday, I said I wouldn't vote for a budget that didn't restore the Chicago Public Library's budget and I meant it. Fund the libraries. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/l...
Just a few more days until the final Meet Me On Milwaukee and this one is going to be spooOOooOky 👻Heads up, this month we'll be shutting down a bit earlier at 4 PM to make sure we reopen the street safely as the sun sets a bit earlier.
Hope to see you out there!
Hope to see you out there!
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just a few more days until the final Meet Me On Milwaukee and this one is going to be spooOOooOky 👻Heads up, this month we'll be shutting down a bit earlier at 4 PM to make sure we reopen the street safely as the sun sets a bit earlier.
Hope to see you out there!
Hope to see you out there!
The Mayor’s proposed budget allocates more money from the Corporate Fund to CPD’s mounted unit ($2.8M) than gender based violence ($0). This is deeply concerning to me.
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The Mayor’s proposed budget allocates more money from the Corporate Fund to CPD’s mounted unit ($2.8M) than gender based violence ($0). This is deeply concerning to me.
🗣️ 1st Ward business owners: Stop by our office (1958 N. Milwaukee) and pick up your sign designating your business as an ICE-Free Zone. Find more resources at the1stward.com/ice.
We’re closed tomorrow but back open on Tuesday!
We’re closed tomorrow but back open on Tuesday!
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
🗣️ 1st Ward business owners: Stop by our office (1958 N. Milwaukee) and pick up your sign designating your business as an ICE-Free Zone. Find more resources at the1stward.com/ice.
We’re closed tomorrow but back open on Tuesday!
We’re closed tomorrow but back open on Tuesday!
Park 399 is officially open! This project was voted on by 1st Ward residents and partially funded with menu dollars.
October 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Park 399 is officially open! This project was voted on by 1st Ward residents and partially funded with menu dollars.
Just wrapped up a hearing with CDOT on traffic crashes. Some key data points I want to share:
🚗 Traffic fatalities down 30% from the 2021 peak
🏥 Chicago experienced the lowest number of serious injury crashes on record since 2012
🚦 85% of fatal crashes involved reckless driving
🚗 Traffic fatalities down 30% from the 2021 peak
🏥 Chicago experienced the lowest number of serious injury crashes on record since 2012
🚦 85% of fatal crashes involved reckless driving
October 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just wrapped up a hearing with CDOT on traffic crashes. Some key data points I want to share:
🚗 Traffic fatalities down 30% from the 2021 peak
🏥 Chicago experienced the lowest number of serious injury crashes on record since 2012
🚦 85% of fatal crashes involved reckless driving
🚗 Traffic fatalities down 30% from the 2021 peak
🏥 Chicago experienced the lowest number of serious injury crashes on record since 2012
🚦 85% of fatal crashes involved reckless driving
What’s there to love about a car-free street? Everything.
Check out the full video on my IG: @aldermanlaspata
Check out the full video on my IG: @aldermanlaspata
September 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What’s there to love about a car-free street? Everything.
Check out the full video on my IG: @aldermanlaspata
Check out the full video on my IG: @aldermanlaspata
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Happy to be in Chicago this week utilizing the amazing transit system, bike share and walkable grid!!
Today marks the start of #WeekWithoutDriving and the forecast looks great for walking, biking, & public transit!
WWD is a chance to challenge yourself to cut back on vehicle trips and try other ways of getting around.
Let’s build communities that are inclusive and accessible for everyone.
WWD is a chance to challenge yourself to cut back on vehicle trips and try other ways of getting around.
Let’s build communities that are inclusive and accessible for everyone.
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Happy to be in Chicago this week utilizing the amazing transit system, bike share and walkable grid!!
Today marks the start of #WeekWithoutDriving and the forecast looks great for walking, biking, & public transit!
WWD is a chance to challenge yourself to cut back on vehicle trips and try other ways of getting around.
Let’s build communities that are inclusive and accessible for everyone.
WWD is a chance to challenge yourself to cut back on vehicle trips and try other ways of getting around.
Let’s build communities that are inclusive and accessible for everyone.
September 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today marks the start of #WeekWithoutDriving and the forecast looks great for walking, biking, & public transit!
WWD is a chance to challenge yourself to cut back on vehicle trips and try other ways of getting around.
Let’s build communities that are inclusive and accessible for everyone.
WWD is a chance to challenge yourself to cut back on vehicle trips and try other ways of getting around.
Let’s build communities that are inclusive and accessible for everyone.
We’re talking speed camera reform in committee today. Tune in right now: www.chicityclerk.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We’re talking speed camera reform in committee today. Tune in right now: www.chicityclerk.com
“I think the ball first and foremost is in the mayor’s court on this...If he wants this to happen, it will happen.”
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/12/a...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/12/a...
Advocates hope action on sidewalk snowplow program heats up soon
One advocate described the City Council saga as “a giant waste of everyone’s time over meaningless political games.”
www.chicagotribune.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“I think the ball first and foremost is in the mayor’s court on this...If he wants this to happen, it will happen.”
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/12/a...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/12/a...
The first #MeetMeOnMilwaukee is in the books! Huge thanks to everyone who made this day possible: the 1st Ward team, 14th District, Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, & CDOT.
If you joined us on Sunday, please fill out our survey to make future events even better! forms.gle/X5wDqxZu4Fbh...
If you joined us on Sunday, please fill out our survey to make future events even better! forms.gle/X5wDqxZu4Fbh...
September 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The first #MeetMeOnMilwaukee is in the books! Huge thanks to everyone who made this day possible: the 1st Ward team, 14th District, Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, & CDOT.
If you joined us on Sunday, please fill out our survey to make future events even better! forms.gle/X5wDqxZu4Fbh...
If you joined us on Sunday, please fill out our survey to make future events even better! forms.gle/X5wDqxZu4Fbh...
THIS SUNDAY! Milwaukee from Damen to Ashland. No cars. 10 AM - 5 PM. Be there or be square.
#MeetMeOnMilwaukee
#MeetMeOnMilwaukee
August 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
THIS SUNDAY! Milwaukee from Damen to Ashland. No cars. 10 AM - 5 PM. Be there or be square.
#MeetMeOnMilwaukee
#MeetMeOnMilwaukee
“The fact that it is already guiding development in this area, it is more in line with what we want to see for the neighborhood and for the city, that to me is a very real-world success.”
While the Northwest Side Preservation Ordinance aims to slow gentrification by giving tenants a “right of first refusal” and discouraging development that decreases density, a pair of aldermen are opting out.
Aldermen opting out of new tenant powers, but proponents defend anti-gentrification effort
An ordinance aims to slow gentrification by giving tenants buying power and discouraging development that decreases density, but a pair of aldermen are opting out.
www.chicagotribune.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“The fact that it is already guiding development in this area, it is more in line with what we want to see for the neighborhood and for the city, that to me is a very real-world success.”
When caught in its earliest stage, the survival rate for breast cancer is 99%. I'm happy to share that FREE mammograms will be available in Humboldt Park starting on Monday! No insurance or appointment is required. Please share widely and help keep our communities healthy!
August 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When caught in its earliest stage, the survival rate for breast cancer is 99%. I'm happy to share that FREE mammograms will be available in Humboldt Park starting on Monday! No insurance or appointment is required. Please share widely and help keep our communities healthy!
"When you see some of these cameras that are generating $1 million in revenue in year one and they’re still generating that much revenue in year 10, that’s a failure of speed control. That’s not a success." blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/20/h...
Have Thoughts On Chicago's Speed Cameras? You Can Weigh In Through A City Survey
A city working group is seeking feedback on recommendations to make the speed camera program more equitable as Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration adds 50 cameras this year.
blockclubchicago.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"When you see some of these cameras that are generating $1 million in revenue in year one and they’re still generating that much revenue in year 10, that’s a failure of speed control. That’s not a success." blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/20/h...
Next Wednesday: Join me and Ald. Fuentes for a community meeting on the upcoming water main replacement on California (North to Armitage). Register at bit.ly/dwm82725
🕐 6:00 p.m.
📍Moos Elementary
🕐 6:00 p.m.
📍Moos Elementary
August 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Next Wednesday: Join me and Ald. Fuentes for a community meeting on the upcoming water main replacement on California (North to Armitage). Register at bit.ly/dwm82725
🕐 6:00 p.m.
📍Moos Elementary
🕐 6:00 p.m.
📍Moos Elementary
How can Chicago be more transparent, equitable, and effective when it comes to speed cameras? Where should the revenue go? Take the Equity in Enforcement Working Group’s Community Priority Survey and weigh in on 20 draft reform recommendations. Survey open until 8/25. bit.ly/ASE-survey
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
How can Chicago be more transparent, equitable, and effective when it comes to speed cameras? Where should the revenue go? Take the Equity in Enforcement Working Group’s Community Priority Survey and weigh in on 20 draft reform recommendations. Survey open until 8/25. bit.ly/ASE-survey
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📢 Fee-waived adoptions all August at Chicago Animal Care and Control! 🐾
Stop by 2741 S Western Ave and meet your new best friend.
🐶🐱
Adoption hours: 12–7 p.m. daily (arrive by 5:30 p.m. to adopt)
#ClearTheShelters #AdoptDontShop #ChicagoACC
Stop by 2741 S Western Ave and meet your new best friend.
🐶🐱
Adoption hours: 12–7 p.m. daily (arrive by 5:30 p.m. to adopt)
#ClearTheShelters #AdoptDontShop #ChicagoACC
July 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
📢 Fee-waived adoptions all August at Chicago Animal Care and Control! 🐾
Stop by 2741 S Western Ave and meet your new best friend.
🐶🐱
Adoption hours: 12–7 p.m. daily (arrive by 5:30 p.m. to adopt)
#ClearTheShelters #AdoptDontShop #ChicagoACC
Stop by 2741 S Western Ave and meet your new best friend.
🐶🐱
Adoption hours: 12–7 p.m. daily (arrive by 5:30 p.m. to adopt)
#ClearTheShelters #AdoptDontShop #ChicagoACC
Hope you'll #MeetMeOnMilwaukee in August, September, or October :)
Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park will go car-free once a month this fall. blockclubchi.co/4fawx1o
July 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hope you'll #MeetMeOnMilwaukee in August, September, or October :)
Big day for TOD development in Chicago! I’m grateful to have been able to play a role in this legislation and I can’t wait to see what we build together in the years ahead.
🚨 BREAKING
Chicago city council has passed sweeping parking reform to eliminate parking requirements around transit!
Thank you @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social for sponsoring this legislation!
@abundanthousingil.bsky.social @parkingreform.org @betterstreetschicago.org
Chicago city council has passed sweeping parking reform to eliminate parking requirements around transit!
Thank you @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social for sponsoring this legislation!
@abundanthousingil.bsky.social @parkingreform.org @betterstreetschicago.org
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Big day for TOD development in Chicago! I’m grateful to have been able to play a role in this legislation and I can’t wait to see what we build together in the years ahead.
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Aldermen advanced a measure that could legalize “granny flats” citywide with limited restrictions, a move advocates say will create more affordable housing in Chicago.
Chicago ‘granny flats,’ coach houses one step closer to citywide legalization with vote
The Zoning Committee voted to advance the additional dwelling unit ordinance, teeing up a Wednesday vote by the full City Council, where opponents could delay it.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Aldermen advanced a measure that could legalize “granny flats” citywide with limited restrictions, a move advocates say will create more affordable housing in Chicago.