A group of west-suburban Democratic Party officials is scheduled to consider nearly a dozen candidates to replace former Cook County Comm. Jeffrey Tobolski (D-16) during a semi-virtual meeting Wednesday evening.

Berwyn Mayor Robert Lovero, who is the Democratic committeeperson for Berwyn Township, will oversee what he called “social distancing protocols” in light of the coronavirus pandemic when he hosts the meeting at 7 p.m. at the Italian American Civic Organization of Berwyn.

The City Council is set to hold its first-ever virtual meeting on Wednesday to test the waters for resuming city business under the state’s stay-at-home order.

Aldermen are scheduled to log onto a videoconference platform at 10 a.m. Monday morning for an “abbreviated” meeting to “adopt rules addressing meetings by videoconference,” according to city officials. The meeting will be broadcast on chicityclerk.com

City leaders stepped up their efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus among homeless populations by opening a 100-bed “isolation facility with wraparound services” for indigent patients, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday. 

Representatives of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart detailed new social distancing measures, a new “rapid test” for COVID-19 and a distribution regime for cleaning supplies in a legal brief submitted Monday to update a federal judge on efforts to fight the virus inside the Cook County Jail.

Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson has opened an investigation into a partial factory demolition that blanketed nearby homes in a cloud of dust on Saturday and prompted two days of fury and finger-pointing from city officials, a spokesperson for the office confirmed on Monday.  

Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered a citywide moratorium on demolition permits while the Chicago Department of Buildings conducts a “top-to-bottom city review” of how its permitting policy may have led to a coal plant demolition that blanketed the Little Village neighborhood in a cloud of dust on Saturday.

A second person being held at Cook County Jail has died from the coronavirus, as the family of the first detainee who succumbed to the illness filed a lawsuit targeting the jail’s policy of shackling sick detainees.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to accelerate testing, improve cleaning and implement better social distancing measures to slow the rapid spread of coronavirus inside Cook County Jail.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office began operating Thursday morning out of a 66,000-square-foot refrigerated warehouse designed to handle the growing number of those who die from the coronavirus, officials announced.

Voters cast their ballots at the Loop Super Site, 191 N. Clark St. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]

Almost 30 percent fewer Chicagoans showed up to the polls last month than they did during the 2016 primary, but the coronavirus pandemic did not stop voters from breaking records last month.

As the number of deaths from coronavirus in Illinois surpassed 300 on Monday — including the first reported death of a person held at Cook County Jail — those calling for the release of incarcerated people are growing impatient with the speed at which prisoners, detainees and incarcerated youth are being evaluated for release.

Daniel La Spata, Jay Ramirez and Lauren Young [Submitted]

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1) declared victory Saturday in his write-in campaign for Democratic Committeeperson in his Northwest Side ward, despite being knocked off the primary ballot.

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line]

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi is restarting the clock on this year’s round of property valuations.

Kaegi will send new assessment notices to property owners in the nine townships that already got mailers from his office this year, he told The Daily Line on Friday. The revised assessments will take into effect the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has already taken on the region’s real estate market.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s statewide stay-at-home order will not stop west-suburban Democratic Party leaders from getting together to choose a replacement for Cook County Comm. Jeffrey Tobolski (D-16) later this month.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle threw cold water Wednesday on property owners’ hopes that their second-installment tax bills may be delayed while they reel from the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.