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JUL 24, 2026
Budget Chair Jason Ervin (28) is pictured at a City Council meeting on April 17, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The chair of the City Council’s budget committee formally introduced a proposal at Wednesday’s special council meeting that the alderman believes could open the door for the city to reacquire the rights to its parking meters.
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JUL 24, 2026
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JUL 23, 2026
City Hall is pictured. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
Chicago voters this fall will weigh in on the development of permanent festival and outdoor event space for large events, the reinstatement of gunshot detection technology and the proposed pursuit of cost recovery associated with the impact of the federal government’s immigration actions in the city, with the City Council officially finalizing its three November ballot questions at a special meeting Wednesday.
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JUL 22, 2026
Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36), one of the sponsors of the FAIR Ordinance, is pictured at a City Council meeting on April 15, 2026. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
A group of alderpeople opposed to some of the biggest reforms in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Protecting Renters Ordinance (PRO) introduced a rival ordinance last week, dubbed the Fair Accountability In Rentals (FAIR) ordinance, that they argue would prevent what they see as potential negative consequences of the PRO legislation while retaining some reforms meant to benefit tenants.
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JUL 21, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Dec. 16, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council will convene for a special meeting Wednesday at 10 a.m. to act on a number of measures to place nonbinding questions on upcoming election ballots.
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JUL 20, 2026
Ald. Andre Vasquez (40) questions CTA board nominee Michael Eaddy at a transportation committee meeting on July 14, 2026. [Livestream]
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s picks to serve on the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) board and the three revamped service boards overseeing Pace, Metra and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) were approved by the city and county’s respective bodies last week ahead of a Sept. 1 deadline.
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JUL 17, 2026
City Budget Director Annette Guzman is pictured at a press conference on April 1, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
Leaders from the city’s budget and finance offices told alderpeople they are no longer sure when the city will make the other half of a supplemental payment into the city’s pension funds, months after the payment was split due to delays in the receipt of county property tax revenues.
While the leaders denied they were walking away from earlier commitments to make the remainder of the $260 million payment, their comments at a Thursday mid-year budget hearing stood in stark contrast to more definitive comments made earlier this year.
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JUL 16, 2026
The City Council meets on Dec. 16, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council on Wednesday approved legislation meant to reduce administrative hurdles that slow affordable housing developments, a new head of the city’s public health department and a measure banning city employees and officials from using non-public info to gain an edge in prediction markets.
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JUL 16, 2026
Renderings show phase one of The 78 project featuring the Chicago Fire Football Club stadium. [Chicago Department of Planning and Development]
Despite lingering questions from some, the City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved an agreement to reimburse the developers of a massive mixed-use development underway on the Near South Side for the cost of road, pedestrian and Metra track improvements, utilities and a two-deck parking structure using tax increment financing (TIF) funding.
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JUL 15, 2026
The Chicago City Council meets on April 15, 2026. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council on Wednesday could give final approval to hundreds of millions of tax increment financing (TIF) dollars to assist with the infrastructure around the new Chicago Fire soccer stadium development in the South Loop, an ordinance clarifying that city employees may not place bets on sites like Kalshi or Polymarket using proprietary information and the appointment of a new health commissioner.
The council will meet at 10 a.m.
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JUL 15, 2026
Renderings show phase one of the Woodlawn Central development. [Department of Planning and Development]
The City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards on Tuesday approved plans for a multi-phase, mixed-use development just a short distance from the recently opened Obama Presidential Center and a landmark designation for the former home of a Chicago newspaper.
The approved items will be considered at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, which begins at 10 a.m.
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JUL 15, 2026
Garth Walker, the nominee to serve as the next CDPH commissioner, is pictured at a Committee on Health and Human Relations confirmation hearing on July 14, 2026. [Livestream]
The City Council Committee on Health and Human Relations on Tuesday approved Mayor Brandon Johnson’s appointment of Garth Walker as the next commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH).
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JUL 14, 2026
Renderings show phase one of The 78 project featuring the Chicago Fire Football Club stadium. [Chicago Department of Planning and Development]
The City Council Committee on Finance on Monday advanced two revised redevelopment agreements providing taxpayer funds to assist with infrastructure like roads, plaza and parking space and pedestrian walkways surrounding a new sports stadium on the Near South Side.
But the committee deferred a planned vote on the transfer of the rights to the city’s parking meters.
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JUL 13, 2026
Finance Chair Pat Dowell (3) is pictured during a City Council meeting on June 12, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
Alderpeople on the City Council Committee on Finance on Monday will consider a change of ownership under the infamous Chicago parking meter deal and hundreds of millions of dollars in public assistance to a new mixed-use megadevelopment on the Near South Side.
The finance committee will meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers.
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