@natehutcheson.bsky.social
Chicagoan. Dad. Civic minded rabble rouser and optimist.
ChiDOT News #3
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ChiDOT News #3
Want a real bike grid (and other nice things)? Then let's demand a city charter.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
ChiDOT News #3
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Despite the recent policy wins for the abundance agenda, Chicago still needs a better approach to collective problem solving, like citizens' assemblies offer. drive.google.com/file/d/1Dt-M...
What is a Citizens' Assembly?.mov
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August 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Despite the recent policy wins for the abundance agenda, Chicago still needs a better approach to collective problem solving, like citizens' assemblies offer. drive.google.com/file/d/1Dt-M...
Hey Chicagoans- fun and serious quiz for you. One important question I would add to it: "How many other major cities allow the mayor to fill city council vacancies?" Hint: it's the same as the number of others that don't have a city charter. chicago.citycast.fm/local-civics...
City Council Nepo Babies: The Quiz - City Cast Chicago
As another alder's seat may pass from father to son, we look at other familial relations in Chicago's City Council.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hey Chicagoans- fun and serious quiz for you. One important question I would add to it: "How many other major cities allow the mayor to fill city council vacancies?" Hint: it's the same as the number of others that don't have a city charter. chicago.citycast.fm/local-civics...
Imagine Chicago using such a civic problem-solving approach for DuSable LSD. coloradosun.com/2025/06/12/o...
Opinion: Fort Collins tried a new kind of democracy — and it worked
Faced with yearslong polarization, the city turned to a Civic Assembly where residents forged common ground in two weekends.
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July 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Imagine Chicago using such a civic problem-solving approach for DuSable LSD. coloradosun.com/2025/06/12/o...
Add this $195M to Chicago's running tab for ineffective governance. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
City Hall wouldn't pay $14 million for cop overtime. Now, it might have to pay at least $195 million.
A judge ruled five years ago in favor of 8,500 current and former Chicago Police Department employees. As the case has lingered, interest on the debt has ballooned while the city disputes how much it ...
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July 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Add this $195M to Chicago's running tab for ineffective governance. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Which state ranked lowest in financial transparency? C'mon guess. www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/...
Financial Transparency Score 2025
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July 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Which state ranked lowest in financial transparency? C'mon guess. www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/...
Have you heard of deliberative democracy? Please let me know.
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Innovate Democracy
YouTube video by Nate Hutcheson
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July 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Have you heard of deliberative democracy? Please let me know.
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Chicago Department of Transformation's first newsletter.
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ChiDOT News; Issue #1
Updates from Chicago's Department of Transformation
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June 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Chicago Department of Transformation's first newsletter.
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For sustainable solutions for housing, transportation and energy in Chicago, we need electeds to understand that a city charter is more than just a nicety. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelastw...
An ‘Abundance’ agenda for Chicago
More housing. More transit. More power. Less waiting.
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June 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
For sustainable solutions for housing, transportation and energy in Chicago, we need electeds to understand that a city charter is more than just a nicety. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelastw...
To commemorate the gift that keeps in giving, save Dec 2 for Parking Revenue Remembrance Day.
Taxpayers will spend $15.5 million to compensate the investment team that paid $1.16 billion to lease Chicago parking meters, thanks to a risky pandemic-era scheme authorized by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
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Parking meter deal that Chicagoans love to hate gets $15.5M worse, thanks to settlement
The settlement with Chicago Parking Meters LLC stems from a risky pandemic-era scheme authorized by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
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May 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
To commemorate the gift that keeps in giving, save Dec 2 for Parking Revenue Remembrance Day.
School board requires CEO to have superintendant license. Mayor wants to suspend requirement so he can appoint loyalist. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/e...
Editorial: Brandon Johnson strong-arms Board of Ed to install his ill-qualified chief of staff
Mayor Brandon Johnson wants school board members to overturn a vote they took less than two months ago to install a favorite as Chicago Public Schools CEO.
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May 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
School board requires CEO to have superintendant license. Mayor wants to suspend requirement so he can appoint loyalist. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/e...
This gets at why a city charter process is foundational for abundant housing and abundant mobility. It's more than policy; it's a mission mindset. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
Abundance and the Left
Abundance and the Left
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The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
Abundance and the Left
Abundance and the Left
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The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
Abundance and the Left
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
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April 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This gets at why a city charter process is foundational for abundant housing and abundant mobility. It's more than policy; it's a mission mindset. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
Abundance and the Left
Abundance and the Left
open.spotify.com/episode/0Y1k...
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
Abundance and the Left
Abundance and the Left
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The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
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As a neuroscientist who studies urban stress, loud cars/motorcycles should be banned, or fined excessively until drivers reassess their need to broadcast their self esteem with unnecessary noise pollution. I don’t need to hear your car in my apartment.
April 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Here's a two-for-one idea for Chicago transit's fiscal cliff and housing shortage: increase the tax rate on land used for car storage.
April 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Here's a two-for-one idea for Chicago transit's fiscal cliff and housing shortage: increase the tax rate on land used for car storage.
5 volunteers. 1,000 flyers this weekend.
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March 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
5 volunteers. 1,000 flyers this weekend.
www.chicagogrowthproject.org/charter-chats
www.chicagogrowthproject.org/charter-chats
A BIG thanks to @cclusa.org for organizing the watch party of @joinordiefilm.bsky.social last night at The Davis! Let's work on social capital and a city charter. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
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Join Or Die - Official Trailer
YouTube video by ROCO films
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March 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A BIG thanks to @cclusa.org for organizing the watch party of @joinordiefilm.bsky.social last night at The Davis! Let's work on social capital and a city charter. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
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While out flyering for the city charter, I met the author of this autobiographical fiction. About the city charter he said, "It's never gonna happen." Challenge accepted, sir. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
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Inside
Inside [Hoffman, Scott M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Inside
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March 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
While out flyering for the city charter, I met the author of this autobiographical fiction. About the city charter he said, "It's never gonna happen." Challenge accepted, sir. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
www.amazon.com/Inside-Scott...
www.amazon.com/Inside-Scott...
22 years later and Chicago still doesn't get it.
March 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
22 years later and Chicago still doesn't get it.
First day of charter chat office hours! 100 s state (upstairs) until noon. Get a free book! @chicagogrowthproject
March 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
First day of charter chat office hours! 100 s state (upstairs) until noon. Get a free book! @chicagogrowthproject
Doing my first Charter Chat office hours Wednesday 3/19 from 9:00-12:00 at 100 S State. Pop in and ask me anything! @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Doing my first Charter Chat office hours Wednesday 3/19 from 9:00-12:00 at 100 S State. Pop in and ask me anything! @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
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Chicago will soon have a museum of public housing! blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/12/l...
Long-Awaited National Public Housing Museum Opening Next Month In Little Italy
The museum, in the works since the late '90s, will open in the last remaining building from the Chicago Housing Authority's Jane Addams Homes.
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March 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Chicago will soon have a museum of public housing! blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/12/l...
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During a hearing on the Metropolitan Mobility Authority act, some Kane and McHenry county officials opposed a proposal for MMA board simple-majority voting. But the current supermajority board vote requirement for RTA actions blocks bold transit upgrades.
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March 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
During a hearing on the Metropolitan Mobility Authority act, some Kane and McHenry county officials opposed a proposal for MMA board simple-majority voting. But the current supermajority board vote requirement for RTA actions blocks bold transit upgrades.
@chicagocta.bsky.social @ctaction.org
@chicagocta.bsky.social @ctaction.org
Great example of an idea we should be adapting/testing in Chicago. We need government that embraces experimentation and problem solving. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Great example of an idea we should be adapting/testing in Chicago. We need government that embraces experimentation and problem solving. @chicagogrowthproj.bsky.social
The way Chicago fills aldermanic vacencies.
March 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The way Chicago fills aldermanic vacencies.