We need your support pushing Illinois bills on housing and transportation forward. Fill out a witness slip for priority bills before the upcoming deadlines.

A witness slip is a quick, formal way to tell your state legislators where you stand on a bill before it ever comes to a vote. It takes about 2 minutes and anyone can do it. Pay close attention to whether the position listed is PROPONENT (support) or OPPONENT (oppose).

How to file: Go to my.ilga.gov, find the bill, and fill out the short form. Watch Bike Grid Now’s video guide shown here for step-by-step instructions or check out this step-by-step PDF.

Key fields inputs:

• "Self" in the firm/business field

• “N/A” in the title field

• "Self" in the representation field

• "Record of Appearance only" in the testimony field

Pro tip: Create a free MyILGA account first so your info is saved for future slips.

This tracking tool can be used to check up on and be updated on the status of bills in the Illinois state legislature.

You can review each bill on the ILGA website, by clicking the button that sends you to the “ILGA page” for each bill.

If you’d like to focus on certain bills from the priority list, click the “Track” button, which will save a bill to “My List”. Your bill list stays on your device, saved as a local cookie, which can be reset in your browser settings. For privacy, this cookie is not sent to any server.

As bills are placed on hearing calendars, the tool will update accordingly, providing the when and where to file a witness slip, and what Strong Towns Chicago’s position is on each.

The tool combines:

• IL state bill data from OpenStates via Govbot, a legislative data catalog, for tracking bill progress

• the ILGA.gov calendar, for tracking hearings and witness slip availability

• our managed list of priority bills, to focus on creating the most impact

Bills are labeled as “Housing” or “Transportation” (including safe streets, transit, and biking related bills) based on the Strong Towns Chicago priority list.

This data is refreshed twice a day, at 8am and 6pm CST, via GitHub action / .YAML file.
Prefer an RSS feed? You can access the notifier’s feed here.

Let us know! Fill out our feedback form so we can continue to improve this tool.

This project was built and is being maintained with AI coding tools, specifically, Claude via Perplexity.

Feedback is welcome - you can review the GitHub repo here, and fill out our feedback form so we can continue to improve this tool.

This automated tool may miss, or mis-identify hearings and witness slip availability due to schedule changes, absent hearing descriptions, or other data quality issues. We encourage you to verify witness slip availability with other sources.