Nicole speaks with Jodie Wiederkehr, founder of Chicago Alliance for Animals. Chicago Alliance for Animals is a volunteer grassroots animal advocacy organization that began in 2015.

The first goal of Chicago Alliance for Animals was to ban horse carriages in downtown Chicago, and in 2017, the organization began diligently documenting how the horses were treated by their handlers as well as the horses’ workloads by volunteers spending countless hours observing the horses. With this documentation and persistence, an official horse carriage ban went into effect in January of 2021.

Below is a quote by Jodie that represents the effectiveness and efficiency of Chicago Alliance for Animals:

“As you likely know, we banned horse carriages an ...