City Council urged to approve public financing of Chicago elections – Chicago Sun-Times

Alisa Kaplan, executive director of Reform for Illinois, and New York City Council member Shahana Hanif made the case to the Chicago City Council’s Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight: public funding of Chicago elections would cost $66.8 million over four years, but the return on that investment would be “huge,” preventing a “handful of big-money donors” from “drowning out the voices of ordinary Chicagoans."