Existing boundaries (left) for the Cook County Board of Review’s three districts, and a new map approved by state lawmakers [Cook County; Frank Calabrese]

Illinois Democrats will take advantage of shifting political winds in Chicago’s suburbs to effectively lock Republicans out of power in the three-member Cook County Board of Review under a new map approved by Illinois General Assembly on Friday.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed off on two bills lawmakers approved earlier this year.

A total of 28 newly introduced measures were banished last week to the City Council’s Committee on Committees and Rules, but 23 of the mostly perfunctory proposals are scheduled to be resurrected Wednesday and sent to the “appropriate” committees during a rules committee meeting.

Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6) and Ald. Leslie Hairston (5) speak during a news conference Thursday.

One day after Mayor Lori Lightfoot formally introduced her long-awaited proposal for civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department (O2021-2143), proponents of a competing community proposal think they still have enough votes to get their ordinance approved.

Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41) and a rendering of a 2017 proposal by Glenstar to build nearly 300 apartments near the Cumberland CTA Blue Line station [DNAinfo/Heather Cherone; Glenstar O’Hare]

A suburban developer is resurfacing its 4-year-old bid to build nearly 300 apartments near the Cumberland CTA station, opening a new front in an intensifying City Council battle over aldermanic prerogative.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot cemented her “comprehensive plan” to honor Du Sable Thursday.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposal to honor Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, the city’s first non-indigenous resident, pulls out all the stops with multiple statues, public artwork, a new festival and a renamed downtown Riverwalk. But it leaves out the proposal some aldermen and advocates have been pushing for 18 months: renaming a portion of Lake Shore Drive after Du Sable. 

Ald. David Moore (17) speaks to reporters after his long-stalled proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive was stymied by a parliamentary delay tactic on Wednesday

The moment after a pair of aldermen maneuvered to sabotage Ald. David Moore (17)’s years-in-the-making push to rename Lake Shore Drive, Moore threatened to use a similar tactic to delay “everything” that came up through the City Council as long as his proposal was held in purgatory.

He wasn’t bluffing.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers questions during a news conference Wednesday.

A portion of a wide-reaching business relief package unveiled Wednesday by Mayor Lori Lightfoot was one of more than 20 newly introduced measures banished to the City Council’s Committee on Committee and Rules.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot discusses her proposal for civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department during a news conference Monday.

Aldermen and long-time community advocates for civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department didn’t waste time poking holes in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-awaited police oversight ordinance hours after she released the plan on Monday.

Wednesday’s scheduled vote to rename Lake Shore Drive after Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable is the culmination of a more than 18-month effort.

The outer portion of Lake Shore Drive would be renamed after Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable if aldermen approve a long-stalled name change Wednesday. And another proposal up for a vote in the City Council would empower the city to shut down “rogue” towing companies operating in the city.

Attorney Steve Friedland showcases a plan to rehab a vacant McKinkley Park building into a 120-unit affordable housing complex.

Aldermen voted on Tuesday to advance a plan to create 120 affordable apartments at the edge of McKinley Park, overruling a faction of their colleagues who said it could be dangerous to locate the homes several hundred feet from a polluting asphalt plant.

Ald. Leslie Hairston (5) ripped Ald. Scott Waguespack (32) and city attorneys for “watering down” legislation to launch a database of historic police misconduct.

An attempt to legislate a city-managed database of historic police misconduct complaints fizzled for the second time in two months on Monday, as aldermen failed to reconcile an impasse between the measure’s supporters and the agency that would be charged with putting it into practice.

Jeff Brink and Malcolm Whiteside during Monday’s finance committee meeting.

A proposal to establish an Urban Forestry Advisory Board stalled in committee Monday, as aldermen approved more than $1 million in legal settlements.

Ald. Nicholas Sposato (38) asked county commissioners not to rename Oct. 12 to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, arguing “this is about addition, not subtraction.”

Elected officials and public commenters raised different arguments for and against renaming Cook County’s Columbus Day holiday during a well-attended subject matter hearing Monday.

A rendering of a building planned at 920 S Wells as part of the “North Union” campus planned next to the Moody Bible Institute.

Aldermen are scheduled on Tuesday to give a zoning nod to JDL Development’s plan to spend the next decade building multiple towers with apartments and commercial space interspersed with parks on a 12-acre swath of the Near North Side.

Key sponsors of a police oversight ordinance include Ald. Harry Osterman (48), Ald. Leslie Hairston (5), Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35) and Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6).

A key committee vote on civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department will be taken next month, teeing up a possible vote by the full City Council June 23, Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29) told aldermen multiple times on Friday.