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    The Chicago City Council meets on April 15, 2026. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    The City Council on Wednesday could give final approval to hundreds of millions of tax increment financing (TIF) dollars to assist with the infrastructure around the new Chicago Fire soccer stadium development in the South Loop, an ordinance clarifying that city employees may not place bets on sites like Kalshi or Polymarket using proprietary information and the appointment of a new health commissioner.

    The council will meet at 10 a.m. 

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    Renderings show phase one of the Woodlawn Central development. [Department of Planning and Development]

    The City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards on Tuesday approved plans for a multi-phase, mixed-use development just a short distance from the recently opened Obama Presidential Center and a landmark designation for the former home of a Chicago newspaper.

    The approved items will be considered at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, which begins at 10 a.m.

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    Garth Walker, the nominee to serve as the next CDPH commissioner, is pictured at a Committee on Health and Human Relations confirmation hearing on July 14, 2026. [Livestream]

    The City Council Committee on Health and Human Relations on Tuesday approved Mayor Brandon Johnson’s appointment of Garth Walker as the next commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). 

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    Renderings show phase one of The 78 project featuring the Chicago Fire Football Club stadium. [Chicago Department of Planning and Development]

    The City Council Committee on Finance on Monday advanced two revised redevelopment agreements providing taxpayer funds to assist with infrastructure like roads, plaza and parking space and pedestrian walkways surrounding a new sports stadium on the Near South Side. 

    But the committee deferred a planned vote on the transfer of the rights to the city’s parking meters.

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    Dr. Lisa Nee is running for mayor in 2027. [Campaign photo]

    A cardiologist and health equity advocate is one of several political outsiders trying to win the race for mayor next year and admit Chicago as her next patient.

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    Finance Chair Pat Dowell (3) is pictured during a City Council meeting on June 12, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    Alderpeople on the City Council Committee on Finance on Monday will consider a change of ownership under the infamous Chicago parking meter deal and hundreds of millions of dollars in public assistance to a new mixed-use megadevelopment on the Near South Side. 

    The finance committee will meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers. 

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    City Hall is pictured. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    A pending plan to have Bank of America serve as an intermediary to bundle and sell hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding city traffic ticket debt owed by Chicagoans has fallen through, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Line.

    The development could make it harder to realize roughly $90 million in revenue that the current city budget is partially balanced on and could increase the likelihood of a forecast revenue shortfall.

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    Rules Chair Michelle Harris (8) is pictured at a City Council meeting on Oct. 9, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    The City Council Committee on Committees and Rules on Thursday advanced multiple questions for the November 2026 and February 2027 ballots and a measure to require downloadable videos of council business.

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    Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill Tuesday raising the maximum payments for people wrongfully incarcerated in Illinois. 

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    Independent gubernatorial candidate Collin Corbett will officially appear on the November ballot after the Illinois State Board of Elections voted to accept the withdrawal of a challenge to his petition Tuesday.  

    The board also voted to remove seven independent and new party candidates running for myriad offices from the ballot and accepted two candidacy withdrawals.  

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    Illinois could have to pay $550 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits annually if the state’s error rate is not improved. 

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    Gov. JB Pritzker signed 31 bills into law last week, including a measure allowing homeowners to recoup excess home equity from a property tax debt sale. 

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    The Illinois House of Representatives will investigate Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) after she was indicted on federal wire fraud and obstruction charges last week. 

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    The U.S. Supreme Court building. [Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons]

    Illinois’ assault weapons ban survived another legal challenge after a federal appeals court upheld the law last week, but the U.S. Supreme Court will likely get the final say this fall. 

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    Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill Thursday codifying electric rate discounts for low-income households. 

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