The City Council’s Committee on Committees and Rules is set to host a public hearing on redistricting Wednesday afternoon.

The first city-run public hearing on Chicago’s once-in-a-decade ward remap is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35) said during a news conference before Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s budget address that her administration had been "copying" the Chicago Rescue Plan "coalition's homework." [Don Vincent/The Daily Line] 

As part of her third budget address Monday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled her $2.5 billion Chicago Recovery Plan, her proposal for using the city’s nearly $1.9 billion in federal pandemic-related stimulus funds and other new spending to aid in recovery from the pandemic.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday that her 2022 budget proposal does not include "any new taxes, no reduction in city services, and no layoffs." [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is proposing to use a combination of leftover tax-increment financing, federal aid from the American Rescue Plan and a smorgasbord of brightened cost and revenue projections to balance the city’s 2022 budget.

Ald. Anthony Beale (9) speaks during the City Council meeting on Monday. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line] 

The City Council gave a delayed stamp of approval on Monday to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to lower regulatory barriers to pot dispensaries and grow operations, overcoming a speedbump set by a pair of critical aldermen. 

Attorney Frank Avellone of the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (left) and lobbyist Tom Benedetto of the Chicagoland Apartment Association sparred during a Friday committee meeting over the Just Cause Eviction ordinance.

The Just Cause Eviction ordinance would bring to Chicago a badly needed set of rules already working in other cities to protect vulnerable families from displacement — or it would crush property owners with burdensome fees and restrictions, driving them out of the city.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is set to introduce her 2022 budget proposal on Monday. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line] 

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is set to unveil her 2022 spending plan Monday, about one month earlier than the city’s typical budget schedule, amid calls for the city to pump directly into communities nearly $1.9 billion in federal pandemic-related grant money.

Aldermen on Friday re-referred three proposals related to public safety that had been temporarily banished to the council’s Committee on Committees and Rules. And the City Council Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight advanced the nominations of two members of a search committee tasked with finding the city’s next inspector general.

The Chicago Plan Commission unanimously approved plans for a 282-unit residential building proposed for 160 N. Morgan St.

A 282-unit Near West Side residential building approved by the Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday would be the first major development required to meet the demands of the city’s new Affordable Requirements Ordinance, officials said. 

Members of the Chicago Housing Justice League held a rally and marched to Ald. Harry Osterman’s (48) office last month to demand a hearing on the Just Cause Eviction ordinance. [Chicago Housing Justice League]

The chair of the City Council’s housing committee will make good Friday on a year-old promise to bring a sweeping eviction crackdown up for discussion — but the measure faces long odds in its current form.

Cara Hendrickson (left) and Walter Katz are set for appointment to a search committee charged with finding Chicago’s next inspector general. [Arnold Ventures/Business and Professional People for the Public Interest]

The delayed process of finding a successor to departing Inspector General Joseph Ferguson is set to kick into higher gear on Friday, as aldermen vet two candidates for a search committee charged with finding a new leader for the watchdog office.

Ald. Andre Vasquez (40) submitted a 229-page budget appropriation proposal that would hike fines for health and building code violations to pay for more mental health and homelessness services. [Alex V. Hernandez/Block Club Chicago]

Chicago’s budget process unfolds along the same lines every year: the mayor comes out with a top-to-bottom spending plan for the next year and aldermen push for tweaks, ultimately deciding whether to register dissent when it comes up for a final vote.

This year, one member of the City Council is trying to upend that routine.

Rush University Medical Center is proposing to build a new five-story inpatient hospital building in the 28th Ward. 

Two Chicago hospitals are seeking approval from the city to add new medical buildings to their campuses. 

Ald. Jim Gardiner (45) paces at a City Council meeting on Sept. 14, 2021. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

The Board of Ethics voted unanimously Monday to issue a “notice of probable cause” that a city official matching the circumstances of Ald. Jim Gardiner (45) violated anti-retaliation rules in the city’s ethics code and should undergo a “full factual investigation” by the city’s inspector general.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaking during a news conference after Tuesday's City Council meeting [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]

The City Council voted on Tuesday to approve a collective bargaining agreement with the Chicago Police Department’s rank-and-file employees, ending the union’s four-year absence of a contract. 

Mapmaking consultant Peter Creticos presents the most recent draft of the county’s new district map during a Redistricting Committee on Tuesday [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]

The Cook County Board of Commissioners has one more week to keep tweaking its once-in-a-decade remap of district boundaries. But to hear commissioners tell it, the job is all but finished.