How CiviNow works

From your address to accountability.

CiviNow does one thing well: it collapses the whole machinery of city government down to the only unit that touches your daily life — your ward — and keeps a running record of how it performs.

01

Enter your address

We match it to 1 of Chicago's 50 wards in an instant. No account, no sign-up — and your address is never stored.

02

Get your ward feed

News, open service requests, public meetings, and FOIA records — every item filtered to exactly where you live.

03

Read the scorecard

Your representative's response rate, vote attendance, budget spend, and open issues — together in one honest view.

04

Hold them accountable

Post a public question that's added to the feed and counted toward your representative's official response rate.

What goes into your feed

Every card is sourced and dated. Nothing is generated — if we can't cite it, it doesn't ship.

News
Local newsrooms
Block Club, WTTW & the Sun-Times, linked at the source.
Issue
City service requests
Open issues, response times and backlogs by block.
Meeting
Council & ward events
Every recorded floor vote, attributed by name.
Data
FOIA & budgets
Local spending and public-records releases.