Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35) speaks about the proposed Milwaukee Avenue Special Character Overlay District at a zoning committee meeting on July 16, 2024. [Livestream]

A vote on a measure to repeal the city’s longstanding ban on additional dwelling units (ADUs) was delayed at Tuesday’s zoning committee meeting, but the committee approved two appointments to the Zoning Board of Appeals and a measure to upzone portions of Western Avenue.

The police and fire committee meets Monday. [Livestream]

The City Council Committee on Police and Fire on Monday held for the second time the remaining mayoral appointment to the civilian police oversight commission over perceived conflict of interest concerns after the item stalled in committee two months ago.

Ald. Bennett Lawson (44) is pictured during a City Council meeting in October 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council zoning committee will consider a measure Tuesday that would repeal the citywide ban on additional dwelling units (ADUs) following a pilot program that saw mixed success. The zoning committee will also consider two mayoral appointments to the Zoning Board of Appeals, a landmark designation for a church and an ordinance regulating indoor event venues. 

The Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards will meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers.

The finance committee meets in council chambers on Monday. [Michael McDevitt/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Finance met Monday and approved legal settlements related to a paramedic exam and a deadly 2019 police pursuit but declined to approve a settlement related to a vacated murder conviction. The committee also approved an allocation of tax increment financing (TIF) funds and changes to the city’s administration of neighborhood opportunity fund grants.

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

The City Council’s health and human relations committee on Friday approved an ordinance that imposes fines for those who print and distribute hateful and bigoted literature and other materials on private and personal property, sending the measure to the full City Council this week.

City Hall is pictured in this file photo. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Finance on Monday will vote on several allocations of tax increment financing (TIF) dollars, changes to the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund program and several legal settlements. The finance committee will meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers.

The city’s police and fire committee will reconsider the stalled nomination of the seventh appointee to the civilian police oversight board, the future of the Bally’s Chicago Casino project got more optimistic Friday, and the budget committee is set to discuss proposed changes for the city’s procurement department.

Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43), sponsor of an anti-hate flyering measure, is pictured at a City Council meeting in November 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Health and Human Relations will meet Friday to hold three subject matter hearings on rodent control, dumping prohibitions to deter wild animals and hate flyering.

The committee will meet at 11 a.m. in council chambers.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is pictured at a June 12, 2024 City Council meeting. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The mayor on Tuesday made multiple announcements to mark the administration’s progress in carrying out the Cut the Tape initiative, the mayor’s plan to reduce bureaucratic hurdles and speed up the approval process for developers of residential and commercial real estate.

Chicago announced an increase in the number of young people hired through its summer jobs program, and the county received recognition for technological innovation and excellence for the fifth year in a row.

Ald. Brendan Reilly (42) is pictured at City Council on April 17, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A downtown alderperson’s measure that could be used to block a planned swim in the Chicago River this fall was approved by the Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation on Wednesday.

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1), chair of the pedestrian and traffic safety committee, is pictured during a City Council meeting in 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety extended the length of a pilot program to automatically ticket drivers for parking infractions during a meeting Wednesday.

Ald. Matt Martin (47), who proposed the Ashland Avenue extension ordinance and represents the area, is pictured at City Council on June 12, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Way voted Wednesday to approve a measure (O2024-0009810) that gives the city’s permission to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to carry out its bus service extension on Ashland Avenue.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25), chair of the housing committee, is pictured on June 12, 2024 at City Council. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate on Wednesday approved a reconveyance of five vacant lots and several affordable community designations.

Chicago Chief Information Security Officer Bruce Coffing speaks during a Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development on July 9, 2024. [Livestream]

The City Council Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development on Tuesday postponed for the second time an ordinance requiring city data to “be processed, stored, transmitted and disposed of” within United States jurisdiction in many but not all cases.