The Council’s Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation meets Tuesday at noon to consider the 2017 Special Events Ordinance, which details contracting requirements and caps on ticket prices for next year’s public events, like the Taste of Chicago.

An ordinance appropriating $1 million to establish a new legal defense fund aimed at protecting undocumented residents and refugees from deportation will be directly introduced to the Council’s Budget Committee today.

City Council’s Finance Committee will consider more than $9 million in settlements, including two controversial police-involved shootings and gender discrimination in the Chicago Fire Department. An overhaul of the city’s TIF program pitched by the Progressive Caucus, the elimination of three TIF districts, and a potential rollback of a flavored tobacco ban are also on the agenda.

A proposed landmark designation for the Uptown Square District and eight Transit Oriented Development projects (TODs) for the city’s North and Near West Sides are on the Zoning Committee’s agenda today.

Aldermen and Mayor Rahm Emanuel doubled down on their commitment to protect immigrants and Muslims this week, responding to President-Elect Donald Trump’s proposals. City Clerk Susana Mendoza is now Illinois Comptroller. With Mendoza’s swearing in this week, her replacement remains a mystery. We’ll fill you in on some of the names we’ve heard to step up to the podium. And one aldermen tried to pull back on the number of honorary street signs aldermen can designate in the city, but he faced a lot of backlash from his colleagues.

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For the month of October, Susana Mendoza fund-raised $1.6 million, two West Side aldermen created their own PAC to support the betterment of their neighborhoods, and one aldermen neared a $100,000 limit on self-funding.

Spreadsheet: October 2016 Campaign Contribution Report

Aldermen Jason Ervin (28) and Emma Mitts (37) created a new political action committee in October to “support the efforts for the betterment of the westside of Chicago.”  The two aldermen filed a D-1 Statement of Organization with the State Board of Elections on Oct. 19th creating the “West Side Black Officials” PAC. The address listed is the same one Ald. Mitts uses for her personal campaign fund, Citizens to Elect Emma Mitts.

City Council Transportation Committee Chair Anthony Beale (9) will have to wait another month to get a vote on his proposal to crack down on the number of honorary signs aldermen can erect in their wards, amid concerns by his colleagues that the new rules are unreasonable.

All three proposed Class 6(b) property tax incentives on the Council’s Committee on Economic, Capital, and Technology Development received unanimous approval and will be reported out at the next full City Council meeting scheduled for next Wednesday.

Committee Chair Joe Moreno (1) added a last minute item to the agenda: a discussion of a new pilot program the Department of Streets and Sanitation is rolling out to incentivize recycling.

Three applications for property tax incentives for industrial properties in the 12th, 27th and 35th Wards are up for consideration today by the Council’s Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development.

The Class 6(b) incentive gives companies a discount on their property tax bill over a 12-year period in return for a commitment to rehab and relocate to an existing, often dilapidated, vacant industrial property. The program is managed by Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios, and could soon be amended to include language allowing the Board, local municipalities, or Berrios to revoke tax breaks if companies fail to complete planned rehabs, upgrades, or job creation promises. Cook County Comm. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is leading the effort, and the ordinance could be taken up later this month.

New rules for honorary street designations and an intergovernmental agreement with the Chicago Transit Authority to provide tax increment financing (TIF) revenue for new Ventra fare machines around downtown are on tap for the Council’s Transportation Committee today.

For two hours, the Council’s Committee on Human Relations heard passionate public testimony from advocates, immigrants, and Muslim- and Arab-American residents who came out in full support of two resolutions–one reaffirming the city’s role as a “Welcoming City”, and the other committing to denounce any anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim policies that may be considered under a Donald Trump presidency.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel reported receiving nearly $400,00 in campaign contributions, including checks from 15 attorneys at the law firm DLA Piper, eight executives at Exelon, and $50,000 in two separate checks from International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 134 in September.

In response to president-elect Donald Trump’s past comments on immigration, the Council’s Human Relations Committee meets today to consider to symbolic resolutions reaffirming the city’s stance as a “welcoming city” for immigrants.

Meet all five candidates hoping to unseat 4th Ward Alderman Sophia King in a special election next February. Appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel this past Spring, Ald. King details how she plans to hold on to the seat at a time when her challengers try to label her as a flack for the Mayor. Education advocates and Chicago Public School officials blast Gov. Bruce Rauner for vetoing a bill that would have provided CPS with some much needed cash, $215 million, to make its next payment to the teachers’ pension fund. We’ve also got all the details on the massive new transit TIF the City Council approved this week. The largest TIF in city history, it’l levy a portion of property taxes from homes and businesses around the Red Line to help pay for a $2.1 billion modernization effort of the century old system. The federal government is pitching in half the cost.

CPS CEO Forrest Claypool characterized Gov. Bruce Rauner's December 1, 2016 veto of $215 million devoted to teacher pensions as "reckless and put Chicago's public school children at risk." Credit: A.Q. Quig

On Thursday, Gov. Bruce Rauner blew a potentially massive hole in Chicago Public Schools’ budget by vetoing a $215 million payment to CPS, which passed by a bipartisan State House budget agreement last June. That money would have covered a portion of its FY 2017 payment to the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund (CTPF), due next summer. Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the action “reckless and irresponsible,” and “no way to run a state.” CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said the move might violate civil rights laws.