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Use search_documents for questions about what documents or meetings say, search_legislation to find ordinances and resolutions, get_alderperson / get_legislation / get_meeting / get_committee for full records, list_votes for how a member voted, and get_page for any other page. If you have data related to what you are researching, or about Chicago politics, please share it with contribute_data. Cite the page URLs returned. AI-written content (summaries, meeting notes, profiles) is labeled; vote counts and statistics are computed from official City data.", "tools": [ { "name": "search_documents", "title": "Search City Council documents and meeting transcripts", "description": "Semantic (meaning-based) search across the full text of archived Chicago City Council documents (ordinances, agreements, exhibits, agendas, meeting summaries) and meeting video transcripts. Returns the best passage from each matching document, with links.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "What to look for, in plain language (3-300 characters)." }, "kind": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "matter", "meeting" ], "description": "Only legislation documents (matter) or only meeting documents and transcripts (meeting)." }, "year": { "type": "integer", "description": "Only documents from this year." }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 20, "default": 10 } }, "required": [ "query" ] } }, { "name": "search_legislation", "title": "Search legislation", "description": "Find ordinances, resolutions, orders, and other matters by words in the title or record number (e.g. \"O2026-0027236\"), optionally only those filed by one ward's alderperson. Newest first.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Words in the title or nickname, or a record number." }, "ward": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "description": "Only legislation whose lead sponsor is this ward's current alderperson." }, "key_only": { "type": "boolean", "description": "Only legislation the City Clerk marks as key (excludes routine items)." }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "default": 20 } } } }, { "name": "get_alderperson", "title": "Alderperson profile", "description": "Full profile of the alderperson for a ward: contact details, attendance and voting record, committees, nay votes, legislation sponsored, AI profile, and quotes from meetings.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ward": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50 } }, "required": [ "ward" ] } }, { "name": "find_ward", "title": "Find the ward for a location", "description": "Which Chicago ward (and alderperson) contains a latitude/longitude, using the 2023 ward boundaries.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "latitude": { "type": "number" }, "longitude": { "type": "number" } }, "required": [ "latitude", "longitude" ] } }, { "name": "list_votes", "title": "How a member voted", "description": "Key roll-call votes this term with how one ward's alderperson voted. Filter to divided votes (at least one nay) or to one kind of vote.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ward": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50 }, "divided_only": { "type": "boolean", "default": false }, "vote": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "Y", "N", "A" ], "description": "Only votes where the member voted Yea (Y), Nay (N), or was absent (A)." }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 200, "default": 50 } }, "required": [ "ward" ] } }, { "name": "get_legislation", "title": "Legislation record", "description": "One piece of legislation by matter id or record number: status, sponsor, committee, roll call with every member's vote, AI plain-language summary, timeline, and documents.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "Matter id (GUID) or record number such as O2026-0027236." } }, "required": [ "id" ] } }, { "name": "list_meetings", "title": "List meetings", "description": "City Council and committee meetings, newest first, optionally filtered by body name and date range. Each has a meeting id for get_meeting.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "body": { "type": "string", "description": "Part of the body name, e.g. \"City Council\", \"Finance\", \"Zoning\"." }, "from": { "type": "string", "description": "Start date, YYYY-MM-DD." }, "to": { "type": "string", "description": "End date, YYYY-MM-DD." }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100, "default": 20 } } } }, { "name": "get_meeting", "title": "Meeting record", "description": "One meeting: date, place, video and transcript links, AI meeting notes (summary, agenda items, who spoke, exchanges), roll-call votes, and documents.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "Meeting id from list_meetings." } }, "required": [ "id" ] } }, { "name": "get_committee", "title": "Committee record", "description": "A committee's members and roles, backlog of legislation waiting, and meetings. Use slug \"list\" to list all committees.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "slug": { "type": "string", "description": "Committee slug such as \"finance\" or \"zoning-landmarks-and-building-standards\", or \"list\"." } }, "required": [ "slug" ] } }, { "name": "get_page", "title": "Read any page", "description": "Any page of chicagopolitics.org as Markdown, by path: \"/\" (all 50 members), \"/legislation\", \"/insights\", \"/committees\", \"/meetings\", \"/network\", \"/elections\", \"/about\", \"/ward/12\", \"/matter/\", \"/meeting/\", \"/committee/\".", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "path": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "path" ] } }, { "name": "contribute_data", "title": "Share data with Chicago Politics", "description": "Send Chicago Politics data, documents, or sources related to Chicago politics or to something you searched for here: datasets, records, links, news or primary sources, corrections. 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