The public safety committee is set to hear reports from the Office of Inspector General, helmed by Deborah Witzburg, left, and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, helmed by Andrea Kersten.

Aldermen in the City Council’s public safety committee are scheduled to hear a slew of presentations Friday ranging from a 2021 public safety recap from the Inspector General to the fifth Independent Monitoring Report on the federal consent decree the police department has been under since 2019.

A vote on a proposed drag racing crackdown stalled in committee on Thursday. And the city released a draft of a citywide plan.

A vote on a proposal to overhaul the city’s ethics code was delayed until Friday. And a City Council committee is set to consider a plan to expand the city’s ability to impound cars involved in drag racing.

Aldermen on Tuesday approved a tax incentive for a Fatburger proposed in Chatham. [Department of Planning and Development]

Property tax incentives for a Fatburger restaurant location in Chatham and a behavioral health hospital in Uptown were teed up for final City Council approval when a key committee quickly approved the proposals on Tuesday.

Ald. Michele Smith (43), left, is working to push her proposed ethics package through the City Council this month. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A tweaked version of a proposal to update the city’s ethics code for the first time in nearly three years could go to the City Council for a vote this month if a key committee gives the measure an OK this week.

The City Council Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight is scheduled to consider a reworked version of the proposal (O2022-1100) from the city’s Board of Ethics and by Ald. Michele Smith (43), who chairs the committee, to update city ethics rules for the first time since December 2019. But Smith’s office told The Daily Line on Tuesday that the alderman willgavel in Wednesday’s meeting and immediately recess until Friday, when a rescheduled vote on the overhaul is expected.

Montrose Behavioral Health Hospital has applied for a Class 7(c) tax incentive.

Aldermen on Tuesday could give an initial OK to tax incentives to boost construction of a behavioral health hospital in Uptown and a Fatburger restaurant in Chatham.

Aldermanic hopefuls have already begun fundraising and campaigning for the 2023 municipal election [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

With the Illinois Gubernatorial Primary Election in the rear-view mirror, campaign work is shifting to next year’s citywide elections, when voters will decide how to fill all 50 Chicago aldermanic seats as well as the Mayor’s chair.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago Department of Transportation Comm. Gia Biagi, Ald. Pat Dowell (3) and other city officials cut the ribbon on the new Motor Row Streetscape project along Michigan Avenue Wednesday. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and city transportation officials on Wednesday used the unveiling of streetscape improvements meant to bolster pedestrian and driver safety on the Near South Side and tout the city’s larger strategy of widening sidewalks, cutting vehicle lanes and improving crosswalks to promote safer streets and reduce traffic crashes.

Chicago’s Jackson Park [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

Voters in three precincts in the city’s 5th Ward cast votes on Tuesday overwhelmingly in favor of preserving trees in Jackson Park and the South Shore Cultural Center Park instead of turning the land over to a controversial golf course expansion backed by Tiger Woods. The advisory question likely served as a bellwether on communities’ feelings about the golf project and other recent developments and proposals in the parks.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the process for choosing a new 12th Ward alderman once the current one leaves for a new elected position will mirror previous transitions. Community activists called on the mayor to name members of a new civilian oversight commission. And Lightfoot decried a new U.S. Supreme Court decision that limits the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to fight climate change.

Only 20 percent of registered voters in Chicago cast ballots in Tuesday’s primary election [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

Despite the pristine weather offered by Illinois’ later-than-usual June Primary Election Day Tuesday, only 20.1 percent of registered voters had turned out and had their ballots counted by the time polls closed on Election Day.

A truck blocks a bike lane in Logan Square. (Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

The day after Chicago transportation officials announced a sweeping plan to add concrete barrier protections to all existing protected bike lanes by the end of 2023, the department is hosting the first meeting of a new forum meant to help collect public input on bike and pedestrian issues.

Chicago Public Health Comm. Allison Arwady speaks during a committee meeting on Monday.

Chicago’s COVID-19 positivity rate is trending up, but the city’s top doctor told aldermen on Monday it wasn’t cause for alarm as fewer routine tests are being conducted or reported with schools out for the summer and many people administering their own rapid tests at home.

But Chicago Department of Public Health Comm. Allison Arwady did begin to cite concern about what funding for her department and other public health departments across the country will look like once the well of federal COVID and American Rescue Plan dollars runs dry after 2024.

Chicago city leaders reacted on Friday to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. And the city’s top doctor on Monday is set to update aldermen on Chicago’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chicago Police Department Supt. David Brown speaks during a news conference in April 2021. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

A four-way joint City Council committee hearing on Friday will give aldermen the opportunity to prod leaders of various city departments — including the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Park District — on their plans to ensure community safety during the summer.

Ald. Anthony Beale (9) and Mayor Lori Lightfoot during Wednesday’s City Council meeting. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

Backers of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2021 move to lower the threshold for speed camera tickets from 11 mph over the limit to 6 mph scuttled a scheduled Wednesday vote on a proposal to restore the threshold back to the higher limit.

Aldermen led by Ald. Jason Ervin (28) moved to defer and publish Ald. Anthony Beale’s (9) proposed speed camera ordinance during the Wednesday City Council meeting.

Speed cameras have captured drivers who exceed the speed limit by 6 mph or more near schools or parks since March 2021. [Anjali Pinto/ProPublica]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s move last year to lower the threshold at which drivers are issued speeding tickets in areas around parks and schools will face a critical test on Wednesday as the City Council is set to vote on whether to raise it from 6 mph over the speed limit back up to 11 mph.

The council’s Committee on Finance voted 16-15 on Tuesday to send Ald. Anthony Beale’s (9) ordinance (O2021-1227) raising the speeding threshold to the City Council for a final vote on Wednesday, more than one year after the measure was introduced. If the ordinance is approved, it could result in the first veto of Lightfoot’s administration.

Monique Scott (left) and Michael Scott. [Facebook; Colin Boyle/ Block Club Chicago]

Monique Scott got the backing of Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday to replace her brother Michael Scott as the new alderman of the 24th Ward.

Lightfoot announced Monique Scott as her pick to fill the vacancy left behind when Michael Scott resigned earlier this month to take a new community relations job with Chicago-based film company Cinespace.

Related: Michael Scott calls it quits, heads to Cinespace to give appointed successor a ‘leg up’ in 2023

The James Sneider Apartments in Rogers Park [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

In addition to the dozens of new development proposals the City Council Committee on Zoning, Building and Landmark Standards is set to consider on Tuesday, aldermen are also scheduled to vote on a measure that would set new cooling requirements for nursing homes, senior housing facilities and large residential buildings.

Spin scooters parked outside Wrigley Field [Spin]

E-scooters are back in Chicago’s neighborhoods and here to stay.

After a delay in the launch of the city’s permanent e-scooter program, scooters from companies awarded licenses by the city have been peppered throughout Chicago’s neighborhoods outside of an area surrounding downtown where Lyft was allowed to proliferate its scooters in May.