Newest sealed read: 2026-09-05. We read this source every day: we hold a copy for all 14 of the last 14. We hold 74 sealed runs going back to 2026-06-11.
What this page is59,191 rows held · newest sealed read 2026-09-05
- We caught 226 changes to Chicago meeting records across 74 sealed days.
- We hold 359 meetings across 29 bodies, and 2,296 agenda items across 17 bodies, for the City of Chicago.
- 1,103 items moved from one stage to another, in the words Chicago uses itself. We do not translate them.
- 70 items had the wording rewritten after already being on a published agenda. A further 45 were spacing or punctuation put right in a title, which we count but rank last.
- 121 are the agenda being stamped published again at the same web address. Whatever was at that address before is not there now, and nothing on the public site marks it.
- 47 are a visible edit: a new agenda address, a new status, a new date or time, a new meeting place, or minutes going up.
Real rows out of our sealed copies
These are rows we read out of dated copies we keep ourselves. The live source shows today only, so once a row moves, what it said before is gone from the place you would go to look.
Source: the meeting records of the City of Chicago, read through the Chicago City Clerk's ELMS records system. The records are theirs; the dated copies and the comparison between them are ours.
12 of 226 agenda changes we caught in Chicago, biggest kind first, each kind once before any repeats
25 Jun 2026 to 5 Sep 2026
| Body | Meeting date | What moved | Between two seals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Aviation | 29 Jun 2026 | Meeting record replaced with a new one; Agenda replaced at a new address; Meeting place changed | 23 Jun → 25 Jun 2026 |
| Committee on Transportation and Public Way | 14 Jul 2026 | Agenda replaced at a new address | 10 Jul → 11 Jul 2026 |
| Committee on License and Consumer Protection | 9 Sep 2026 | Agenda posted for the first time | 4 Sep → 5 Sep 2026 |
| Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight | 9 Sep 2026 | Agenda posted for the first time | 4 Sep → 5 Sep 2026 |
| Committee on Police and Fire | 8 Sep 2026 | Status: Scheduled & Published → Cancelled | 2 Sep → 3 Sep 2026 |
| Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 22 Sep 2026 | Status: Scheduled & Published → Cancelled | 31 Aug → 1 Sep 2026 |
| Committee on License and Consumer Protection | 8 Jul 2026 | Meeting date moved to 8 Jul 2026 | 5 Jul → 6 Jul 2026 |
| Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development | 15 Sep 2026 | Meeting place changed | 10 Aug → 18 Aug 2026 |
| Committee on Police and Fire | 22 Sep 2026 | Added to the calendar | 4 Sep → 5 Sep 2026 |
| Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy | 29 Sep 2026 | Added to the calendar | 4 Sep → 5 Sep 2026 |
| Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy | 1 Sep 2026 | Agenda stamped published again, same address | 4 Sep → 5 Sep 2026 |
| Committee on License and Consumer Protection | 9 Sep 2026 | Agenda stamped published again, same address | 3 Sep → 4 Sep 2026 |
12 of 1,218 item changes we caught in Chicago: one of every kind we caught, then the biggest kinds fill the rest, newest first inside a kind
24 Jul 2026 to 29 Aug 2026
| Item | Subject | Body | What moved | Between two seals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F2026-0027528 | Executive Order No. 2026-4 (Establishing Responsible Firearm… | City Council | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 90-Final | 5 Aug → 6 Aug 2026 |
| Or2026-0027483 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 304 N Michigan… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027482 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 304 N Michigan… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027467 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 8600 W Bryn… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027399 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 6199 N Lincoln… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027395 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 21 E Hubbard… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027394 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 600 N Michigan… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027393 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 600 N Michigan… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027392 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 600 N Michigan… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| Or2026-0027391 | Issuance of permits for sign(s)/signboard(s) at 600 N Michigan… | Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards | 2-Submitted to Clerk → 4-In Committee | 23 Jul → 24 Jul 2026 |
| SO2026-0027190 | Issuance of multi-family program funds and other financial… | Committee on Finance | Wording rewritten | 28 Aug → 29 Aug 2026 |
| O2026-0027097 | Disabled Parking Permit No. 131751 - remove | Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety | “No.131751” → “No. 131751” | 24 Aug → 25 Aug 2026 |
What this page cannot tell you
- We can only show you a change that happened between two of our reads. If a council put an agenda up and took it down again inside one day, we did not see it and we will not pretend we did. We missed 12 days: 19 Jun 2026, 4 Jul 2026, 8 Jul 2026, 15 Jul 2026 and 8 Aug 2026, plus a 7-day stretch from 11 Aug 2026 to 17 Aug 2026. Anything that moved and moved back inside one of those gaps is not in this feed, and we will not claim it is.
- We hold six governments and no others: Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Phoenix, Columbus, and Los Angeles County.
- We ask Chicago for 3 pages of its meeting list and 5 pages of its item list, 100 rows a page. Our newest copy came back with 300 meetings and 500 items, both of them full, so the city's own lists are longer than what we hold. A row leaving one of these lists means it left this file: it does not mean the meeting was cancelled, the item was killed, or that anyone named on it went away.
- A meeting dropping off the list is usually the list rolling forward past the meeting date, not a withdrawal. That happened 57 times here and is kept out of the table above on purpose.
- We record what the meeting list said. We do not download the agenda document itself, so we cannot tell you which line inside the PDF changed.
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You do not have to take our word for what is in the file. Here are 25 rows of the real thing, carrying all 9 of its columns, cut out of the dated copies we sealed ourselves. Nothing in it is made up and nothing in it is tidied up.
- Open the 25 rows as a CSVA plain spreadsheet file. It saves to your machine rather than painting itself into a browser tab, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
- The same 25 rows as JSONThe same rows again, laid out for reading with code.
Nothing on this page is for sale. The sample file is free to read, and so is every row on the page above it.
These 25 rows are a slice of the file, not the whole of it. What we cannot show you here is how far back it goes: the file goes back further than these rows do.
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