Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Dec. 16, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council on Thursday is set to consider an ordinance to legalize video gambling at hotels, restaurants and other establishments with incidental liquor licenses, a new master plan for The 78 development site in the South Loop and an ordinance establishing new employer standards to protect employees that work outdoors from heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses.

Depending on the outcome of a rules committee meeting Thursday morning, the council could also consider the appointment of Walter Redmond Burnett as 27th Ward alderman and the appointment of a new vice mayor. The council will meet no earlier than 10 a.m. following the end of the Committee on Committees and Rules, which will meet at 9:45 a.m.