With 15 city council districts in Los Angeles, each councilmember represents nearly 265,000 Angelenos on average. By comparison, New York City has 51 councilmembers, who each represent fewer than 173,000 people on average, and Chicago has 50 councilmembers who represent about 55,000 people each. Those figures were cited by city staff during a Thursday, April

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