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Feb 10, 2020

This episode of the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast host Jim Hunt talks big city and small neighborhoods with Joe Moore, Former Alderman of Chicago, Illinois

 

Using Podcasting to build an Amazing City.

 

  • How Joe became the youngest alderman in the 3rd largest city against the incumbent in his district
  • The role of Alderman in the city of Chicago in a 57,000 citizen district
  • The ‘Living Wage’ battle in Chicago
  • How cities and towns can work as a laboratory for democracy with new ideas, technology and policies.
  • How the participatory budgeting process works and how it was used in the 49th ward in Chicago

Special Mentions:

 

  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Chicago Cubs
  • Participatory Budgeting

 

7 Steps to an Amazing City:

  1. Attitude
  2. Motivation
  3. Attention to Detail
  4. Zing
  5. Inclusiveness
  6. Neighborhood Empowerment
  7. Green Awareness

 

Thanks for listening and look forward to having you join us for the next episode.

 

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About Joe Moore:

 

Known as a pioneer for political reform, governmental transparency and democratic governance, Joe Moore has represented Chicago’s 49th Ward since 1991. Encompassing the majority of Chicago’s Rogers Park community and a portion of the West Ridge community, the 49th Ward is one of the nation’s most economically and racially diverse communities.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1958, and raised in Oak Lawn and Evanston, Illinois, Moore has lived in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood since 1980.  He has two sons, Nathan (25) and Zachary (18).  Moore’s wife, Barbara, contributes a great amount of volunteer time to the 49th Ward community, including coordinating the activities of the 49th Ward Green Corps and being a founding member and former chair of the Glenwood Sunday Market Board of Directors.

Moore graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1976, earned a B.A. from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1980, and received a J.D. from DePaul University Law School in 1984.

From 1984 to 1991, Moore worked as an attorney in the City of Chicago’s Department of Law, first in the department’s Appeals Division, where he argued cases before the Illinois Appellate Court, the Illinois Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and later in the department’s Affirmative Litigation Division, where he worked to recover millions of dollars on behalf of the City’s taxpayers.

Moore won re-election in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and most recently in 2015, when he received 67% of the vote.  He is chairman of the City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate and also serves on the following City Council committees: Budget and Government Operations; Education and Child Development; Finance; Health and Environmental Protection; Human Relations; Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation; and Rules and Ethics.

Moore was a pioneer in the effort to bring community policing to Chicago.  Under his leadership, the 49th Ward was selected as one of the first areas of the city to host a community policing pilot project, which resulted in a 54% reduction in serious crime over a 15-year period.  Moore also gained national renown as a leader in the fight for living wages and sponsored the landmark “Big Box Living Wage Ordinance,” which required large retail stores to pay their employees a wage sufficient to keep a family of four out of poverty.

Most recently, Moore became the first elected official to bring “participatory budgeting” to the United States.   Each year, Moore turns over $1 million of his discretionary capital budget to a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making in which his constituents decide through direct vote how to allocate his budget.  Moore’s participatory budgeting model has since been adopted by four of his Chicago City Council colleagues, as well as city council members in New York City, San Francisco, and Vallejo, California

 

About Your Host, Jim Hunt:

Welcome to the “Building Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast” … The podcast for Mayors, Council Members, Managers, Staff and anyone who is interested in building an Amazing City.

 

Your host is Jim Hunt, the author of “Bottom Line Green, How American Cities are Saving the Planet and Money Too” and his latest book, “The Amazing City - 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City”

 

Jim is also the former President of the National League of Cities, 27 year Mayor, Council Member and 2006 Municipal Leader of the Year by American City and County Magazine.

 

Today, Jim speaks to 1000’s of local government officials each year in the US and abroad.

 

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