44th Ward Action Chicago
@44thwardchicago.bsky.social
We are progressive organizers in Chicago’s 44th Ward.
Santa was arrested, y’all!
Call your alders tell them to fund community safety & make the richest corporations pay their fare share! bit.ly/m/phs2026
Call your alders tell them to fund community safety & make the richest corporations pay their fare share! bit.ly/m/phs2026
Chicago Teachers Union on Instagram: "🎅🏽Santa got arrested for protecting youth jobs.
We have grinch Alders who would rather squeeze working-class families than tax the ultra-wealthy corporations — p...
Chicagoans rallied together to protest corporate greed and call for fair taxation, pushing for a corporate head tax to ensure wealthy corporations pay their fair share. With working-class families str...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Santa was arrested, y’all!
Call your alders tell them to fund community safety & make the richest corporations pay their fare share! bit.ly/m/phs2026
Call your alders tell them to fund community safety & make the richest corporations pay their fare share! bit.ly/m/phs2026
Did you know 26 alders signed on to a budget proposal that wants to cut 5,100 youth jobs??
Listen to Natasha Smith Walker with @projexplore explain how important for ALL of us that youth have every opportunity to grow! www.instagram.com/reel/DSBQMmk...
Call your alderman: bit.ly/m/phs2026
Listen to Natasha Smith Walker with @projexplore explain how important for ALL of us that youth have every opportunity to grow! www.instagram.com/reel/DSBQMmk...
Call your alderman: bit.ly/m/phs2026
Public Health & Safety Coalition - Landing Page
Shift the CPD slush fund to fund our Public Health & Safety services!
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December 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Did you know 26 alders signed on to a budget proposal that wants to cut 5,100 youth jobs??
Listen to Natasha Smith Walker with @projexplore explain how important for ALL of us that youth have every opportunity to grow! www.instagram.com/reel/DSBQMmk...
Call your alderman: bit.ly/m/phs2026
Listen to Natasha Smith Walker with @projexplore explain how important for ALL of us that youth have every opportunity to grow! www.instagram.com/reel/DSBQMmk...
Call your alderman: bit.ly/m/phs2026
Besides shady real estate deals, our previous 44th ward alderman’s accomplishments included lifting a ban on Foie gras & keeping food trucks out of the city. 🤔
Can someone please explain how then alderman & head of zoning committee Tunney got away with selling a worthless building for 10M six years ago & it’s still sitting there not bulldozed down? How is this not under investigation? He got to appoint his lackey & is still pulling the strings.
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Besides shady real estate deals, our previous 44th ward alderman’s accomplishments included lifting a ban on Foie gras & keeping food trucks out of the city. 🤔
Don’t let them fool you. Our alders are making us pay more so that their corporate masters get bigger bonuses. #ProtectChicagoBudget
This. As our city alders side with the ultra rich corporations at the expense of their constituents & still have the nerve to call themselves Democrats. 🤢
Americans say affordability is a top concern for their families — many are struggling to cover basics like dog food or energy bills and don’t see any sign things are improving.
More from our latest focus groups 👇
navigatorresearch.org/focus-group-...
More from our latest focus groups 👇
navigatorresearch.org/focus-group-...
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Don’t let them fool you. Our alders are making us pay more so that their corporate masters get bigger bonuses. #ProtectChicagoBudget
About that “alternative budget” that’s removing CSS ‘head tax’ revenue:
- decreases the long-term financial security of the city
- adding additional fees & taxes on everyday Chicagoans
- cutting benefits for city workers
- is based on revenue & efficiencies that are missing rigorous analysis.
- decreases the long-term financial security of the city
- adding additional fees & taxes on everyday Chicagoans
- cutting benefits for city workers
- is based on revenue & efficiencies that are missing rigorous analysis.
Analysis of "Alternative Budget Proposal" from a Bloc of Chicago City Council Members for FY26 Budget — Institute for the Public Good
An Institute for the Public Good analysis of the alternative budget proposal made public on December 2, 2025 found that it is constructed with fraught assumptions, core contradictions, and an overall ...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
About that “alternative budget” that’s removing CSS ‘head tax’ revenue:
- decreases the long-term financial security of the city
- adding additional fees & taxes on everyday Chicagoans
- cutting benefits for city workers
- is based on revenue & efficiencies that are missing rigorous analysis.
- decreases the long-term financial security of the city
- adding additional fees & taxes on everyday Chicagoans
- cutting benefits for city workers
- is based on revenue & efficiencies that are missing rigorous analysis.
How do you know which ward you live in?
1. Go to the City of Chicago's Find Your Alderman page.
2. Enter your full street address in the provided search bar.
The tool will tell you your ward number and your local alderperson.
www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
1. Go to the City of Chicago's Find Your Alderman page.
2. Enter your full street address in the provided search bar.
The tool will tell you your ward number and your local alderperson.
www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
www.chicago.gov
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
How do you know which ward you live in?
1. Go to the City of Chicago's Find Your Alderman page.
2. Enter your full street address in the provided search bar.
The tool will tell you your ward number and your local alderperson.
www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
1. Go to the City of Chicago's Find Your Alderman page.
2. Enter your full street address in the provided search bar.
The tool will tell you your ward number and your local alderperson.
www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
If you live in 44th ward, let Ald. Lawson know that we can see through his nonsense. He needs to listen to his constituents instead of big corporate interests that frankly, have no business in our ward. #ProtectChicagoBudget
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If you live in 44th ward, let Ald. Lawson know that we can see through his nonsense. He needs to listen to his constituents instead of big corporate interests that frankly, have no business in our ward. #ProtectChicagoBudget
Reposted by 44th Ward Action Chicago
“O’Neill Burke’s policy fails to acknowledge the fact that CPD has not earned the benefit of the doubt. Instead of taking away scrutiny, the state’s attorney should be increasing it.”
I have a letter in the S-T today about SA Burke's troubling decisions re felony review chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...
Police need more scrutiny in gun cases, not less
Decision to expand the expedited felony review pilot program citywide in low-level gun cases is deeply troubling. Also, Chicago Public Library funding, Gaza, 30 N. LaSalle Street building, city traffi...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“O’Neill Burke’s policy fails to acknowledge the fact that CPD has not earned the benefit of the doubt. Instead of taking away scrutiny, the state’s attorney should be increasing it.”
When government (fed, state, local) breaks the laws it’s supposed to uphold, no one is safe. Black community has known this all along. It’s time the rest of us learned that segregation doesn’t make us safer. It divides us & makes us volnurable to abuse.
Leaders of Chicago's Black community emphasize the need to help immigrants and the Latino community as the Trump administration has targeted the city this year. "The only pathway to collective freedom is to stand in solidarity with one another.”
Black Chicagoans express solidarity with immigrants amid federal raids
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December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
When government (fed, state, local) breaks the laws it’s supposed to uphold, no one is safe. Black community has known this all along. It’s time the rest of us learned that segregation doesn’t make us safer. It divides us & makes us volnurable to abuse.
Our alders are playing games with our communities health & safety because they think we are not playing attention. But we do & so does Santa. FAFO, corporate caucus alders.
www.publicgoodpolicy.org/our-research...
#ProtectChicagoBudget
www.publicgoodpolicy.org/our-research...
#ProtectChicagoBudget
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Our alders are playing games with our communities health & safety because they think we are not playing attention. But we do & so does Santa. FAFO, corporate caucus alders.
www.publicgoodpolicy.org/our-research...
#ProtectChicagoBudget
www.publicgoodpolicy.org/our-research...
#ProtectChicagoBudget
Rally to fund our communities TODAY!
Where: 900 N Michigan Ave, Chicago
When: Wednesday December 3rd 4pm
#ProtectChicagoBudget
Where: 900 N Michigan Ave, Chicago
When: Wednesday December 3rd 4pm
#ProtectChicagoBudget
Tax the Rich Holiday Rally · United Working Families
Days before City Council votes on the Protect Chicago Budget, we will rally outside the office of Billionaire Michael Sacks to demand that rich corporations like his pay their fair share to fund our c...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Rally to fund our communities TODAY!
Where: 900 N Michigan Ave, Chicago
When: Wednesday December 3rd 4pm
#ProtectChicagoBudget
Where: 900 N Michigan Ave, Chicago
When: Wednesday December 3rd 4pm
#ProtectChicagoBudget
Thanks to everyone who showed up to our very first People’s Townhall in the 44th ward & have called and emailed Ald. Lawson’s office in support of the Protect Chicago budget. We sent an update back to Ald. Lawson & requested regular ward night schedule. #ProtectChicagoBudget
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Thanks to everyone who showed up to our very first People’s Townhall in the 44th ward & have called and emailed Ald. Lawson’s office in support of the Protect Chicago budget. We sent an update back to Ald. Lawson & requested regular ward night schedule. #ProtectChicagoBudget