Ald. David Moore (17) speaks after a June City Council meeting. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line] 

Thursday’s meeting of the City Council Committee on Budget and Government Operations came to an abrupt pause after Ald. David Moore (17) took issue with a community organization being tapped to receive federal grant money to help the city with “health literacy.” 

Lincoln Property Company is seeking to turn a surface parking lot at Weiss Hospital into a 12-story apartment building. [Courtesy 46th Ward Office]

This article was first published in Block Club Chicago.

UPTOWN — A developer’s plan to turn a Weiss Hospital parking lot into a 12-story apartment complex received critical city backing Thursday, bringing the controversial development one step closer to approval.

The next phase of the Roosevelt Square project on the Near West Side is nearing full City Council approval.

This article was first published in Block Club Chicago.

CHICAGO — A key city panel green-lit plans Thursday to bring over 200 new residential units across four buildings at the former Chicago Housing Authority-owned ABLA Homes on the Near West Side.

An artist's rendering of the police training facility in development. [provided]

This article was originally published in Block Club Chicago.

A city plan to establish a new Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago on the grounds of a much-maligned police and fire training facility is moving forward.

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough is ready to start calculating property tax rates after initially refusing to do so, her office announced. And City Council committees are set to take up ordinances on a range of issues, from remote administrative hearings to car impoundments. 

Plan Commissioners are set to consider the next phase of the Roosevelt Square mixed-income development on Thursday. 

The Chicago Plan Commission is set for a marathon meeting Thursday as commissioners prepare to consider approving the next phase of the Roosevelt Square mixed-income development, a controversial luxury housing development in Uptown and nearly a dozen additional development proposals combining for more than 1,000 new homes across the city.

Chicago Department of Housing Comm. Marisa Novara reviewing a map of applications from the last round of the Emergency Rental Assistance Program.

Aldermen advanced two measures on Wednesday designed to prevent a wave of renters from being displaced as state and federal moratoria on evictions are on track to expire at the end of this month.

Ward-level officials who oversee garbage pickup and street cleaning should not be immune from court-mandated hiring restrictions, according to a city watchdog. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

Aldermen are violating federal hiring rules by hand-picking the officials responsible for trash collection and street sweeping in their own wards, a city watchdog declared in a report published Wednesday.

Aldermen are scheduled on Wednesday to consider the sale of the former Michael Reese Hospital site for the ultimate development of the "Bronzeville Lakefront" campus.

Aldermen on Wednesday are set to consider the sale of the former Michael Reese Hospital to the developer planning to build a 48-acre housing, office and life sciences campus on the Bronzeville property.  

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Edith Makra speak Tuesday during a virtual event on a regional climate action plan. 

National and local leaders including Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday agreed a regional approach is the best way to tackle the impact of the climate crisis that Chicago and its surrounding suburbs continue to see. 

More than 2,000 Cook County workers represented by SEIU Local 73 went back to work on Tuesday after an 18-day strike. [Facebook/SEIU Local 73]

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle lashed leaders of the SEIU Local 73 union on Tuesday as they returned to work after an 18-day strike, saying their work stoppage accomplished nothing but to hobble county operations and hurt county leaders’ relationship with one of their largest labor groups.

World Business Chicago CEO Michael Fassnacht speaking during a City Council committee meeting on Tuesday

2021 is shaping up to be the “best year ever” for Chicago’s growing technology sector, a top city marketing official declared on Tuesday during a wide-ranging presentation aimed at wooing out-of-town tech firms to set up shop in Chicago.

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough (left) and Assessor Fritz Kaegi are locked in a public battle over property tax calculations.

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office must double-check all 144,000 property tax exemptions it has granted low- and middle-income seniors before county Clerk Karen Yarbrough and Treasurer Maria Pappas prepare to send out the next round of property taxes this summer, Yarbrough and Pappas wrote in a letter to Kaegi on Monday.

Aldermen are scheduled Tuesday to advance a pair of tax incentives and probe World Business Chicago leaders on how they’re marketing the city. Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced on Monday the recipients of Neighborhood Opportunity Fund grants. And the Chicago Board of Ethics issued a new round of advisory opinions.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot (left) and budget committee chair Ald. Pat Dowell (3)

A growing chorus of aldermen and organizers are pushing for the City Council and Mayor Lori Lightfoot to begin doling out the windfall of federal cash the city has received from the American Rescue Plan Act, saying the city needs all the help it can get to quell the surge of summer violence gripping the city. But Lightfoot and a powerful committee chair are urging patience, saying they need time to crowdsource the best use of the funds.