Ald. Nick Sposato (38), chair of the Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation, is pictured during a City Council meeting on October 11, 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation on Tuesday will consider a measure calling for a downtown park property to be renamed for the pope and myriad open space fee expenditures for community garden and plaza projects.

The committee will meet at 1 p.m. in council chambers.

Housing Chair Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25) is pictured at a City Council meeting on April 7, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate on Wednesday will consider multiple sales of city land for new homes on the South and West sides, the transfer of ownership of a senior living facility and changes to how the city doles out financial assistance for affordable developments.

Notably absent from the agenda is Mayor Brandon Johnson’s sweeping update of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance known as the Protecting Renters Ordinance, which received a housing committee hearing last week after being directly introduced into committee. 

Related: Protecting Renters Ordinance introduced to housing committee 

The committee will meet at 12:30 p.m. in council chambers.

Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43) is pictured at a City Council meeting in November 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council’s ethics committee on Tuesday is set to consider a proposal that would prohibit city officials and employees from making money from prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket through the use of confidential and proprietary information. 

The Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight will meet at 11 a.m. in Room 201A at City Hall.

Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks about the PRO ordinance at a press conference in Daley Plaza on June 29, 2026. [Michael McDevitt/The Daily Line]

The City Council’s housing committee on Monday heard from all sides of the debate around a major piece of legislation from Mayor Brandon Johnson that would add new protections and financial relief for renters facing lease non-renewals and increase transparency around corporate apartment building ownership. 

It would also seek to improve the city’s ability to hold bad landlords accountable and increase housing stability for tenants.

“For too long, Chicago has lagged behind other cities. Past administrations have kept organizers at arm’s length while declining to implement critical protections that have yielded results across the country,” Johnson said at a Monday morning press conference in Daley Plaza announcing the introduction of the legislation. “Needless to say, relief is long overdue.”

The Committee on Finance conducts a hearing on the proposed parking meter rights transfer on June 25, 2026. [Livestream]

The firm seeking to purchase the rights to the city’s parking meters for the remainder of a 75-year lease attempted to butter up skeptical council members at a Thursday finance committee hearing, promising to be a better concessionaire than the current owners.

While the firm was grilled by some about its reported connections to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement methods, other alderpeople skeptical of the transfer directed more of their ire at the Department of Law and mayor’s office for their refusal to share key information with the City Council. 

Mayor Brandon Johnson is pictured at a press conference on April 1, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

Following a violent long weekend in Chicago, a coalition of faith leaders, anti-violence advocates and elected and city officials have renewed a longtime call for the creation of a city agency solely dedicated to reducing gun violence, and Mayor Brandon Johnson signaled Tuesday that he was open to engagement and discussions on the idea.  

At the same time, the coalition has the support of two alderpeople who plan to introduce an ordinance ahead of the August City Council recess calling for the permanent establishment of the Department of Gun Violence Reduction to tee up conversations during the fall budget season.