The City Council Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Monday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line] 

Aldermen are scheduled Monday to hear a report from the city’s top watchdog on cases her office investigated during the last half of 2022 and discuss a proposal for publicly funded elections during a meeting of the City Council Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight.  

The Altenheim Line. [City of Chicago presentation]

Framework plans for the Altenheim Line — a two-mile elevated trail that could run along a railway and through Garfield Park and North Lawndale — got an OK from the Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday.

Emily Glover, senior director of patient services of Planned Parenthood Illinois, speaks during a news conference Wednesday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line] 

The City Council during its penultimate meeting before the Feb. 28 election passed an ordinance that tightens protections for people seeking abortions or gender-affirming care and approved appointments to the city’s first ever Urban Forestry Advisory Board.

The existing Altenheim rail that would be turned into an elevated trail park. [City of Chicago presentation] 

The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday is set to consider adopting the framework plan for the Altenheim Trail on the city’s West Side. Plan Commissioners are also set to vote on a nine-story mixed-use development in Humboldt Park. 

Members of the City Council will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]  

The City Council’s penultimate regularly scheduled meeting before the Feb. 28 election includes a relatively light agenda as aldermen are set to consider a proposal that would crack down on housing and employment discrimination against people who receive abortion care and gender-affirming care. 

Aldermen will meet in person in council chambers at 10 a.m. Wednesday. 

43rd Ward Director of Zoning and Urban Development Taylor Nesse, top right, speaks during the City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards meeting on Jan. 17, 2023. [City of Chicago Livestream] 

The City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards on Tuesday approved a zone change to allow a proposed cannabis business in Lincoln Park to move forward with plans. 

Approval did not come, however, before one alderman expressed skepticism about the status of some cannabis businesses as minority-owned while stopping short of accusing the applicants. 

Some district council candidates and their attorney Ed Mullen (left) and the objectors’ attorney Pericles Abbasi during Friday’s Electoral Board meeting. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line] 

Three groups of candidates who filed as slates to run for the city’s new police district councils in the Feb. 28 election will appear on the ballot next month despite facing objections to their petitions, the Chicago Electoral Board ruled Friday.  

The Chicago Electoral Board during a meeting Friday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]  

At least 10 candidates who are running for a seat on the City Council this year will not face a challenger in the Feb. 28 election.  

The Chicago Electoral Board met  for its longest meeting this election cycle Friday to make decisions on dozens of objections to candidates’ petitions for the February election.  

Lincoln Park may move a step closer to getting its first dispensary following a key committee vote this Tuesday. 

The City Council Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards will consider the proposal during its 10 a.m. meeting in City Council chambers.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot addresses members of the media Thursday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line] 

The city’s Board of Ethics this month plans to discuss Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s reelection campaign’s sending of emails to CPS teachers and City Colleges of Chicago faculty requesting they promote to their students volunteer opportunities with Lightfoot’s reelection campaign.  

Chicago Public Schools’ inspector general is also investigating the matter, Crain’s reported Thursday. 

Members of the finance committee Thursday. [City of Chicago livestream] 

A $5 million city grant program funded with tax-increment financing dollars to help restore a downtown corridor moved one step closer to final approval Thursday during a key City Council committee meeting.  

Members of the finance committee will meet Thursday at City Hall. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Finance on Thursday will get a first look at a portion of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to revitalize downtown’s LaSalle Street corridor that would offer a total of up to $5 million in city grants to businesses seeking to reactivate the corridor.

Aldermen meet in City Council chambers Tuesday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line] 

Members of two separate City Council committees on Tuesday approved measures that if approved by the full council next week would grant an estimated $4.5 million tax abatement to Flood Brothers Disposal for a new facility in the 14th Ward and allow the sale of one city-owned parcel in the 3rd Ward.  

Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33) speaks during a committee meeting Monday. [City of Chicago livestream]  

The City Council Committee on Health and Human Relations on Monday approved a measure (O2022-3993) meant to prohibit housing and employment discrimination or retaliation against people who have had abortions, received reproductive healthcare or gender-affirming care.  

Additionally during the Monday meeting, the committee approved a resolution (R2022-1417) supporting Iranian citizens' human rights movement and the encouragement of United Nations Human Rights Council intervention regarding human rights suppression and a resolution (R2022-332) calling for recognizing Roberto Clemente’s place of death in Loiza, Puerto Rico on the National Register of Historic Places. 

The City Council’s Housing Committee on Tuesday will consider the sale of a city-owned parcel and a lease agreement in the 41st Ward. Members of the Economic Development Committee are set to vote on a proposed property tax incentive for a business in the 14th Ward.