Bureau Of Information And Publicity

There is hereby created a bureau for the city of Chicago which shall be known as the Bureau of Information and Publicity and shall embrace a Commissioner of Information and Publicity, a Chief Statistician and such investigators, assistants and employes as may be provided by ordinance.

There is hereby created the office of Commissioner of Information and Publicity, who shall be appointed by the mayor and who shall have charge of the general management of all matters and things pertaining to said bureau.

There is also created the office of Chief Statistician, who shall be appointed by the mayor, and he shall act as municipal librarian and shall perform such other duties pertaining to the bureau as the commissioner may require.

The commissioner shall cause to be collected and compiled information relating to all branches of the municipal government, and in so far as it may be of material assistance he shall compile information relating to the conditions and activities of other municipalities.

He shall keep on file all reports printed by the city relating to the government of the city, and shall collect and compile statistics and information concerning public service corporations, including the ordinances, laws and statutes under which such public service corporations operate.

When so directed by the mayor or city council, or when he deems it necessary, the commissioner shall issue a bulletin publishing the terms of any new ordinance or any proposed change in any existing ordinance of the city, which shall be confined to a brief statement of the proposed ordinance and shall be furnished free to the public by said commissioner upon application.

Said bureau shall be open to the public, and the public shall, subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by said commissioner, have access to and may consult all files and documents of said bureau.

Counc. Proceedings for 1910, p. 2862.