Take Action
So, what can you do to help advocate policy to control the spread of bed bugs in our city? Take action!
Send an Email to Your Aldermen
You can send an email to every alderman in the City of Chicago in about three minutes, if you so choose, using our CitizenSpeak campaigns. Just visit the campaign pages listed below, fill in a little information, add a personal statement to our email if you wish, and click “send”. Pretty simple, huh? Yeah, we think so, too!
- Campaign #1 (sent to aldermen in wards 1-25): The City of Chicago Needs Policy to Control the Spread of Bed Bugs
- Campaign #2 (sent to aldermen in wards 26-50): The City of Chicago Needs Policy to Control the Spread of Bed Bug Infestations
*Note: If an alderman isn’t listed, we couldn’t find his or her email address.
Send an Email to Your Public Health Officials
- Terry Mason, Chicago Board of Health Commissioner: publichealth@cdph.org
- Joy Getenburg, Chicago Department of Public Health, Planning and Policy: getenburg_joy@cdph.org
- Erlinda Tzirides, Chicago Department of Public Health, Community Health Division: tzirides_erlinda@cdph.org
- Sandra Thomas, Chicago Department of Public Health, Epidemiology Program: THOMAS_SANDRA@CDPH.ORG
- Tom Kropidlowski, Chicago Department of Public Health, Health Protection & Regulations Division: kropidlowski_tom@cdph.org
- Venancy Conner, Executive Secretary to Chicago Board of Health Commissioner: CONNER_VENANCY@CDPH.ORG
- Karen Ewing, Administrative Assistant to Health Commissioner: EWING_KAREN@CDPH.ORG
- Lupe Ramirez, Executive Assistant to Health Commissioner: RAMIREZ_GUADALUPE@CDPH.ORG
- Calvin Stover, Deputy Health Commissioner: STOVER_CALVIN@CDPH.ORG,StreetsAndSan@cityofchicago.org
- Virginia White, Executive Assistant to Health Commissioner: WHITE_VIRGINIA@CDPH.ORG
- Victor Wojtychiw, Deputy Health Commissioner: Wojtychiw_Victor@cdph.org
- Robert Myers, Deputy Commissioner, Streets & Sanitation: BMYERS@CITYOFCHICAGO.ORG
- Dr. Damon T. Arnold, State Public Health Director via the Illinois Department of Public Health website: Follow this link and click on “Questions or Comments” (left side of the page) to send an email.
- David Carvalho, Deputy Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Statistics, Illinois Department of Public Health: David.Carvalho@illinois.gov
- Alan D. Biggerstaff, Deputy Director, Office of Health Protection, Illinois Department of Public Health: Alan.Biggerstaff@illinois.gov
Contact Your State Legislators
- Follow this link to the Civic Footprint Participation Tool and enter your street address to see your county commissioner and district number, state senator and district number, state representative and district number, congressman and district number, and judicial subcircuit number.
