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

The City Council Committee on Finance on Monday approved millions of dollars in tax-increment financing (TIF) and other financial assistance for housing developments and a park project and millions of dollars to settle lawsuits involving alleged police misconduct. But the committee delayed a vote on a controversial expansion of the TIF district in Pilsen.