• The Los Angeles Common Council was the predecessor of the Los Angeles, California, City Council. It was formed in 1850 under state law, when the city...
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    The Los Angeles City Council is the lawmaking body for the city government of Los Angeles, California, the second largest city in the United States. It...
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    The mayor of Los Angeles is the chief executive of the Government of Los Angeles as set in the city charter. The current officeholder, the 43rd in the...
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    the south end.” In 2003, the Los Angeles City Council renamed this area "South Los Angeles". The name South Los Angeles can also refer to a larger 51-square-mile...
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    the Los Angeles Common Council and city auditor Matthew Cooke (filmmaker) Steve Downes, radio disc jockey Elisha K. Green, member of the Los Angeles Common...
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    Angeles Common Council John Avalos (1964-), member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Wilder W. Hartley (1901–1970), Los Angeles City Council member...
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    Strother Griffin (1816–1898), surgeon, founder of East Los Angeles, member of Los Angeles Common Council Oscar De La Hoya, boxer Edward James Olmos, actor...
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    the Los Angeles City Council is the presiding officer of the Los Angeles City Council. The president presides as chair over meetings of the council and...
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    Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Venice was founded by...
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    neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area...
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    Julián A. Chávez (category Los Angeles Common Council (1850–1889) members)
    official in 19th-century Los Angeles, California. Chávez served multiple terms on the Los Angeles Common Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors...
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    17 Los Angeles City College, a public community college in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Common Council, the...
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    feˈlis]) is a hillside neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica...
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    began in 1878 as the Los Angeles City Auditor and in the early days included secretarial duties for the Los Angeles Common Council as part of the job....
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    businessman and member of the Los Angeles Common Council Frank Sabichi (1842–1900), attorney, land developer, member of the Common Council Ygnacio Sepulveda (1842–1916)...
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    Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles Sunland-Tujunga /təˈhʌŋɡə/ is a Los Angeles city neighborhood within the Crescenta Valley and Verdugo Mountains. Sunland...
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    The Cecil Hotel is an affordable housing complex in Downtown Los Angeles. It opened on December 20, 1924, as a luxury hotel, but declined during the Great...
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  • Panorama City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley. It has a generally young age range as well as the...
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    Los Angeles's 5th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. It is currently represented by Democrat Katy...
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    Benjamin Davis Wilson (category Los Angeles Common Council (1850–1889) members)
    struggling to retain their land grants. Having served on the Common Council of Los Angeles, he later was elected to a term as the second Mayor of the city...
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  • Government Los Angeles Common Council, the predecessor of the Los Angeles City Council which serves the City of Los Angeles, California today A city council in...
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    Jews in Los Angeles comprise approximately 17.5 percent of the city's population, and 7% of the county's population, making the Jewish community the largest...
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    William Ferguson (1822–1910), member of the Los Angeles Common Council Glenn Frey, musician Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles mayor Erica Garcia, Argentine rock singer-songwriter...
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    property developer and politician who served as President of the Los Angeles Common Council from 1870 to 1871. Jones, a Jew, was born in Warsaw, Poland in...
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    neighborhood and district in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference...
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    Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California. With an estimated 3,820,914 residents...
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    Los Angeles's 2nd City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. It is currently represented by Democrat Paul...
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    Los Angeles's 1st City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. It is currently represented by Democrat Eunisses...
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  • West Los Angeles is an area within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. The residential and commercial neighborhood is divided by the Interstate...
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    Mission Hills is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley. It is near the northern junction of the Golden State Freeway...
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