Quincy, Illinois · City Council

Tell the city council what you think.

Pick what bothers you. Add a few sentences of your own. This writes the letter and addresses it to the mayor and all 14 aldermen.

It goes out from your email, not ours. That means it lands in their inbox, and it counts as a real letter from a real voter.

—days since Quincy voted 4,003 to 2,490 for a list of who owns the rental houses in town. The council still has not made one.

1 What are you writing about

What do you want to tell them?

Pick one or more. Each one adds a paragraph to your letter.

Make landlords sign up

In April 2025, 62 out of every 100 voters said yes to a simple list of who owns each rental house and who to call when it breaks. The council still has not made the list.

Your letter asks them to hold the vote

Ticketing people for sleeping outside

Put on hold August 3. Tickets start at $75 and climb to $750. Every day you are there counts as a brand new ticket. If you cannot pay, the city can make you pick up trash along the streets instead — about 50 hours of it for a $750 ticket.

Your letter asks how many shelter beds we actually have

The license plate cameras

Twenty cameras photograph the back of every car that drives past them — about three million a month. The city pays $128,750 for two years. The state caught the camera company breaking Illinois law by letting a federal agency look at our plates. Evanston and Oak Park shut theirs off.

Your letter asks the city not to sign another contract

Something else

None of the above? Pick this. What you type below becomes the whole letter.

Your letter says whatever you want it to say

2 This is the part that works

Say it your way

They delete letters that all say the exact same thing. Your own words are what gets read out loud at the meeting. Answer these three and you will be done:

1. What have you seen with your own eyes here in Quincy?
2. What did it cost you, or somebody you know?
3. What do you want the council to actually do about it?

In your own words

0 of 500 characters — 500 to go

3 So they know you live here

Who you are

They sort their mail by street address. A letter with no name and no address gets ignored.

Full name

Your ward

Street address

— Everyone who receives it

The Quincy City Council

Pick your ward above and your own two aldermen get marked YOURS in the list below. Call them too. One phone call is worth ten emails.

Mayor

Linda Moore