Welcome to the 2nd Ward! I am proud to represent a ward that is experiencing both increased community involvement and tremendous growth. We are uniting neighbors to work toward our common goal of making our Ward the best in the City of Chicago!
This site is intended to be your central resource for all things related to the 2nd Ward and City of Chicago services. If you have suggestions for additions to the content then please let me know.
If we have not already met at a community meeting, a CAPS beat meeting, a church, a school function or some other event I am sure that we will soon. Please feel free to introduce yourself and let me know that you are a resident of the 2nd Ward.
In order to serve you better, please contact me with your questions and concerns at any time.
Come join me at our 2nd Ward Spring Clean and Green!
9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 17th
Meeting locations for this Spring are:
The South Loop Field House
1801 S. Indiana
2nd Ward Yard
2801 S. Calumet
Crane High School
2245 W. Jackson
This is a great opportunity to show how much you care about your community. Come join your neighbors or meet new ones as we for one day play the role of Streets and Sanitation workers picking up trash, pulling out weeds, getting rid of graffiti and making our neighborhoods a cleaner and safer place to live and grow up in.
The City will supply all the cleaning tools and my office will provide lunch. There are many options available as far as cleaning locations and group stagings are concerned. For more information contact Maritza Garcia at my office, 312-263-9273.
Starting April 1st 2010 the City of Chicago and State of Illinois Departments of Transportation (CDOT and IDOT) will begin reconstruction and resurfacing projects on the above listed streets. The work will take place specifically on the Congress Parkway bridge, North-South portion of Wacker Drive and Eisenhower Expressway from the Loop to Thorndale.
These projects will bring many improvements to these areas. They will strengthen the aesthetic qualities, increase safety and make your drive, walk or bike ride much more smooth. The North-South portion of Upper Wacker will be transformed the same as the new East-West portion and the Congress Parkway Streetscape will turn that corridor into the most beautiful gateway to the City while improving pedestrian and motor safety.
While we are excited all these projects are taking place they will undoubtedly have a large impact on traffic flow during construction. Representatives from CDOT and IDOT are working closely with my office in order to respond to resident and business owner feedback. These representatives will be on hand for the length of the project to make adjustments to detour routes, traffic management personnel and and other aspects of the project as needed.
Once construction has begun if you would like to speak to someone about the project or traffic impact please contact my office at 312-263-9273 and we will work with CDOT and IDOT.
The full presentations of the four projects are available online here. Scroll down to the bottom and click on the specific project to download or view the entire street and ramp closures, construction plans and timelines.
We are proud to announce that Friends of the Parks, a non-profit organization focused solely on improving parks in the city of Chicago for more than 30 years, will honor Alderman Fioretti with its 2009 Legislative Award on February 4th at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Since being elected, the alderman has made improving and expanding our parks one of his top priorities. To accomplish this, he has budgeted City resources for our parks and has worked to secure both TIF and state dollars. In 2009, Ald. Fioretti dedicated two new parks — Printers’ Row and Battle of Fort Dearborn — and broke ground on another park to be completed next year at Adams and Sangamon.
We want to thank Friends of the Parks for this recognition. Ald. Fioretti will share this honor with everyone who has donated their time toward this common goal. A key leader in the alderman’s parks efforts is volunteer liaison Leslie Recht.
For more information on Friends of the Parks, including information on this event please view the web site: www.fotp.org.
I was recently interviewed by WTTW’s Jay Shefski of the Chicago Tonight program and we discussed the city’s method of garbage collection. Currently the city picks up trash by Ward: a task anyone familiar with the Ward boundaries would recognize as unnecessarily complex. This method is inefficient and expensive. Too many man hours and too much gas money is wasted as drivers are forced to traverse the gerrymandered Ward limits and drive from one end of the Ward to the other. During this interview I propose a new grid-based system of garbage collection which will save the city millions of dollars and ensure more efficient services.
