id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ar-22420	Pin, Laura	Does Participatory Budgeting Lead to Local Empowerment? The Case of Chicago, IL.	2017	27	.pdf	application/pdf	8525	483	47	In 2010 PB Chicago was formed, and by 2016 the process had expanded to $6.2 million dollars of infrastructure funding in seven different wards. In addition, although many volunteers with the PB process had pre-existing connections to the aldermanic office, some residents reported in interviews becoming more comfortable and knowledgeable about contacting the alderman’s office, findings that are also supported by survey data collected by PB Chicago (Crum et al. 2013).	cache/ar-22420.pdf	txt/ar-22420.txt