A Chicago Fire Department emblem is pictured. [File photo]

The City Council Committee on Workforce Development on Tuesday will consider advancing a long-awaited, new collective bargaining agreement for the union that represents Chicago firefighters.

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1) attends a council meeting on Feb. 19, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A joint City Council committee on Friday voted down a proposed pilot program for city-sponsored sidewalk snow plowing, defeating the measure after the proposal had sat in limbo for months. 

The Joint Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety and Transportation and Public Way voted it down 13-4 even after being presented with a scaled-down version of what a working group had recommended.

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1) talks with reporters about the request for Plow the Sidewalks pilot program funding in the 2025 budget on Dec. 2, 2024. [Provided by Better Streets Chicago]

A joint City Council committee on Friday will vote on a measure that would implement a pilot program for city-sponsored sidewalk snow removal. 

City Council is pictured in March 2024. [Michael McDevitt/The Daily Line]

For the second time in several years, alderpeople will consider changing City Council rules to require substitute ordinances and directly introduced legislation to be available for public viewing ahead of consideration and votes by members.

Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park groundbreaking ceremony on Sept. 30, 2025. [Livestream]

State and local officials joined Related Midwest, real estate firm CRG and tech leaders Tuesday to break ground on the first phase of Quantum Shore Chicago, which will be a 440-acre technology and innovation district on the old U.S. Steel South Works site along the Chicago lakefront. 

The first phase of the project will be anchored by PsiQuantum, a Palo Alto, California-based company promising to build the first “million-qubit scale, fault-tolerant” quantum computer in the country in Illinois. 

Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36) is pictured at a City Council meeting in May 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A Northwest Side alderman has introduced a resolution that calls on state lawmakers to allow the city to move its municipal elections in alignment with statewide general elections as a way to drive up turnout and drive down costs.

Ethics Chair Matt Martin (47) is pictured at a City Council meeting on June 12, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight on Wednesday will hold two subject matter hearings on recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports. The committee is set to meet in council chambers at 10 a.m. 

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

A Lincoln Park alderman on Thursday introduced a proposal that would allow restaurants and cafes to accept dogs inside their establishments if they choose. Ald. Timmy Knudsen’s (43) ordinance would formally legalize and regulate the practice that is currently outlawed but often selectively enforced.

Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Dec. 16, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council on Thursday gave final approval to a broad end to the city’s ban on accessory dwelling units (ADUs) but delayed votes on a measure that would legalize video gambling and a measure meant to protect outdoor employees from extreme heat.

Ald. Walter Redmond Burnett (27) is sworn into office on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 accompanied by his father, former Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. [Livestream]

The City Council on Thursday voted unanimously to confirm former Ald. Walter Burnett Jr.’s son, Walter “Red” Burnett, as the next alderperson of the 27th Ward. 

Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Dec. 16, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council on Thursday is set to consider an ordinance to legalize video gambling at hotels, restaurants and other establishments with incidental liquor licenses, a new master plan for The 78 development site in the South Loop and an ordinance establishing new employer standards to protect employees that work outdoors from heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses.

Depending on the outcome of a rules committee meeting Thursday morning, the council could also consider the appointment of Walter Redmond Burnett as 27th Ward alderman and the appointment of a new vice mayor. The council will meet no earlier than 10 a.m. following the end of the Committee on Committees and Rules, which will meet at 9:45 a.m.

Ald. Desmon Yancy (5) is pictured during a City Council meeting in May 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate on Wednesday approved an ordinance that would establish multiple programs to prevent gentrification and displacement of residents who live in the area near where the Obama Presidential Center is being built.

Ald. Marty Quinn (13) is pictured during a City Council meeting on January 15, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A prominent opponent of recent attempts to legalize additional dwelling units (ADUs) citywide has come to a compromise with the lead sponsor of the ADU legalization ordinance, signaling potential passage at this Thursday’s City Council meeting.

Renderings show phase one of The 78 project featuring the Chicago Fire Football Club stadium. [Chicago Department of Planning and Development]

Following approval at last week’s Chicago Plan Commission meeting, a massive proposed mixed-use development that will include a new soccer stadium cleared another hurdle Tuesday when members of the Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards voted to advance the development plan to the City Council for final consideration.

Ald. Maria Hadden (49) is pictured during a City Council meeting on April 7, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

An ordinance that would establish employer standards and procedures to protect employees that mostly work outside from heat-related illnesses during extreme temperatures was approved by the City Council Committee on Workforce Development Monday despite opposition from some in the business community.