Housing Chair Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25) is pictured at a City Council meeting on June 12, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council’s housing committee on Wednesday will consider a proposal to restructure the city housing trust, several lease renewals and multiple proposed sales of city land. 

The Committee on Housing and Real Estate is scheduled to meet at 12:30 p.m. in council chambers.

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

The City Council Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety on Wednesday will consider the creation of a pilot program to allow residents to report recorded instances of parking violations and a measure to regulate car-sharing businesses in residential areas near Midway airport.

The committee is set to meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers.

From top left, Wesam Shahed, Patricia Joan Murphy, Sylvester Fulcher, Antoine Bass and Veronica Bolling-Franklin are running as Democrats in Cook County Board District 6. [Provided]

Five Democrats have filed to fill Comm. Donna Miller’s (D-6) seat on the Cook County Board of Commissioners next year, as Miller is running for Congress to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), who is running for U.S. Senate.

The candidates that have filed for the primary in March include Sylvester Fulcher, Wesam Shahed and Worth Township Supervisor Patricia Joan “Trish” Murphy — the daughter of former 6th District Comm. Joan Murphy, who passed away from breast cancer in 2016. The candidates also include REALTOR Antoine Bass and Veronica Bolling-Franklin, a school board member for Elementary School District 159.

The Chicago Police Department emblem is pictured on the side of the city's Public Safety Headquarters. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A joint committee meeting of the City Council Committee on Police and Fire and Committee on Public Safety will meet Monday morning to listen to a presentation about the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) annual public safety report. 

The joint committee will meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers.

Interim Operating Chairman Matthew Brewer speaks during a Chicago Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meeting on Nov. 25, 2025. [Livestream]

The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Board of Commissioners approved a $1.4 billion budget for the 2026 fiscal year on Tuesday. It's about a 7.7 percent increase over the adopted 2025 budget of $1.3 billion. The board also authorized new housing assistance payment contracts. 

Cook County Comm. Sean Morrison (R-17) speaks during a finance committee meeting on Nov. 20, 2025. [Livestream]

Cook County Comm. Sean Morrison (R-17), the sole Republican on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, announced late last week that he had decided not to seek reelection next year, therefore eliminating a competitive primary with another Republican who also filed for the seat.

Morrison filed for reelection on Nov. 3, the final day of filing. He has yet to formally withdraw from the race.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle presides over a meeting to vote on the annual county budget on Nov. 20, 2025. [Livestream]

The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a $10.12 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Thursday that does not raise taxes or cut services or jobs.

From top left across, Cat Sharp, Jose "Che-Che" Wilson, Elizabeth Granato and Isaiah White are running for the Democratic nomination in District 12 on the Cook County board. [Provided photos]

Four Democrats have filed nominating petitions to run in the primary this spring for Cook County Board District 12, as Comm. Bridget Degnen (D-12) is not seeking reelection.

The 12th District includes the North and Northwest sides of Chicago, including River North, Wicker Park, Bucktown, Lincoln Park, Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square and Portage Park. 

Renderings show a planned $100 million transit-oriented mixed-use development at 214 N. Morgan St. near the Morgan CTA Green Line station. [Chicago Department of Planning and Development]

The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday approved a lakefront protection application for new housing in Edgewater, proposals for new housing in Uptown, Fulton Market and Morgan Park, a basketball facility for DePaul University and adoption of a new 20-year downtown development framework.

A panel including Alds. Jessie Fuentes (26), Matt O'Shea (19), Samantha Nugent (39) and Jason Ervin (28) are pictured at a City Club luncheon on Nov. 19, 2025. [Livestream]

After an impasse over the 2026 city budget was laid bare this week, four members of the City Council appeared on a City Club of Chicago panel Wednesday to debate potential solutions to the city’s nearly $1.2 billion budget gap, with all of them seeming to agree that a property tax levy hike, even though not currently proposed, should be off the table.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas attends a county budget hearing on Oct. 30, 2025. [Livestream]

A stark drop in commercial property values in the Loop is one of the main drivers behind sticker stock for homeowners that recently received second installment Cook County property tax bills, according to a study released this week by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office. 

The increase in property tax bills hit some of Chicago’s Black communities the hardest, the study also showed. 

Ald. Anthony Beale (9) speaks during a City Council meeting on Feb. 26, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council on Tuesday met to formally delay a key portion of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2026 budget plan after the Committee on Finance failed to advance the annual revenue ordinance Monday, which included a revived corporate head tax and multiple other tax, fee and fine proposals. 

The council also gave final approval to a landmark designation that was deferred at last week’s council meeting, and some alderpeople tried but failed to name Ald. Bennett Lawson (44) as the permanent chair of the powerful zoning committee. 

County Board President Toni Preckwinkle speaks at a forest preserves board meeting on Nov. 18, 2025. [Livestream]

Commissioners for the Board of the Cook County Forest Preserves on Tuesday unanimously approved a $194.1 million budget for the district for 2026, representing a $4.78 million, or 2.5 percent, increase from 2025.

The board approved an amended version of the budget that Board President Toni Preckwinkle introduced in October.

Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Oct. 30, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Finance voted down Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to revive a corporate head tax to fund various community safety initiatives Monday alongside myriad other tax, fine and fee proposals, quashing an attempt to get his spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year over the finish line this week and delaying any approval into December. 

The committee vote came just days after the mayor and his budget team did not introduce the ordinances that make up the annual budget during a council meeting, opting instead to directly introduce the appropriations, revenue, management and bond ordinances directly into committee.

Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks after a City Council meeting on Nov. 14, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The mayor and his budget team did not introduce the ordinances that make up the annual city budget during a City Council meeting Friday, signaling that even a now-revised version of mayor’s controversial proposal to increase taxes on businesses and the wealthy to plug a nearly $1.2 billion gap next year may not have the votes to pass out of the finance and budget committees as planned Monday.