Greater Englewood is split among six wards — more than any other neighborhood.

Greater Englewood is one of several communities throughout Chicago carved up into numerous wards and represented by multiple aldermen. While some of those aldermen agree with a prominent community group that wants ward boundaries to be redrawn so they more closely mirror neighborhood lines, others argue it is beneficial to Greater Englewood to be represented by the six aldermen who currently each claim a piece of the neighborhood.  

Maura McCauley speaks during a committee meeting Thursday. 

The one-month extension of a rental agreement between the city and a downtown hotel to use 175 rooms as shelter for single men experiencing homelessness cleared a committee hurdle Thursday.

Aldermen on Thursday are set to consider extending an agreement with a downtown hotel for COVID-19 quarantine space amid the pandemic. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

Aldermen are set on Thursday to extend a contract with a downtown hotel that has served as a quarantine location for city and nursing home workers, and to approve the allocation of at least $900,00 in new grant money. 

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15) [left] and Ald. Walter Burnett (27) speak during Tuesday’s housing committee meeting. 

Aldermen used a City Council committee meeting on Tuesday to air frustrations with the Chicago Housing Authority to board members before approving their reappointments unanimously.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot during a June news conference. 

Aldermen on Tuesday are set to consider the sale of multiple city-owned properties on the city’s South and West sides for various developments, including a plan to bring 100 affordable single-family homes to North Lawndale.

Pictured above is an automated no-touch shop at Midway Airport. A similar shop could be coming to O'Hare Airport.

Aldermen were divided on Thursday over a new concession agreement set to bring vending machines and an automated no-touch shop to O’Hare Airport, as members of the Latino Caucus said the city didn’t do enough to attract Hispanic firms to get involved.  

Potential new commissioners for the Chicago Park District Myetie H. Hamilton [left] and Modesto Tico Valle answered questions during a committee meeting on Thursday.

Aldermen used a Thursday City Council committee meeting to grill newly nominated commissioners for the Chicago Park District Board on the ongoing investigation into sexual abuse by lifeguards and other recent issues facing the park district. 

Matt Richards (right) with the city’s Department of Public Health and Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33) speak during a Wednesday committee meeting.

City officials on Wednesday began briefing aldermen and residents on a “co-responder” pilot program launched Monday that sends different combinations of mental health professionals, paramedics, police officers and recovery specialists in response to residents experiencing mental health crises.  

Ald. Andre Vasquez (40) speaks during a City Council Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology meeting on Tuesday.

A review of Chicago’s 311 service request system would not only make the tool more useful and accurate for residents but could also help city departments make their case for a bigger slice of the city’s budget, according to an alderman. 

City workers filling potholes. Chicago residents can submit service requests including graffiti removal and tree plantings on the city’s CHI 311 website and app. [Quinn Ford/DNAinfo]

Upgrades made two years ago to the city’s 311 system could soon be reviewed in an attempt to make the service request system more accurate and helpful for residents and city officials. 

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1) and advocates laid out their arguments for the "Water for All" ordinance, which would codify a permanent end to water shutoffs.

The lead sponsor of an ordinance that would make permanent a ban on city water shutoffs and expand the city’s affordable billing program says he hopes his proposal, which aldermen were supportive of on Friday, is passed by the end of the year.

The Chicago Plan Commission during its Thursday meeting approved Onni Group’s multi-tower proposal for Goose Island.

With little discussion and ample support from the local alderman and city officials, the Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday gave an initial green light to Onni Group’s proposal to transform a portion of Goose Island into a five-tower mixed-use development, complete with public open space and a pedestrian bridge over the Chicago River.

Members of the Plan Commission on Thursday will consider Onni's proposal for a massive development on Goose Island.

A massive mixed-use development that would bring Goose Island its first residential units in decades and a 300-key hotel is expected to get an initial OK from the city during Thursday’s Plan Commission meeting.

Signs posted in Logan Square urge the city to stop the use of ShotSpotter. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

The ShotSpotter technology the city of Chicago uses to detect where guns are fired is not “effective” in “developing evidence of gun-related crime,” a report published Tuesday by the Office of Inspector General found. 

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and city finance and budget officials gave a forecast on the 2022 budget earlier this month.

The Kroll Bond Rating Agency on Tuesday upgraded Chicago’s general obligation debt from “negative” to “stable,” but analysts remained wary about effects of the COVID-19 Delta variant and the city’s reliance on “non-recurring revenue.” 

Leaders of the venture behind the Lawndale Redefined development present their proposal during a news conference announcing request for proposal winners on Monday.

Four new mixed-use developments announced Monday are expected to bring more than 215 new homes, 40,000-square feet of commercial space and 900 jobs to the city’s South and West sides. 

Since the beginning of the year, Former Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno (1) has filed dozens upon dozens of amendments to his campaign account in a comprehensive audit dating back to 2013, perplexing election officials and at least one political consultant who says he was falsely tagged in Moreno’s expense reports — all while the former alderman’s account’s balance is stuck at more than $100,000 in the red.

Chicago Department of Public Health Comm. Allison Arwady speaks during a news conference on Tuesday.

Beginning Friday, the city of Chicago will again require people to wear masks when inside public places, regardless of vaccination status, city officials announced on Tuesday.  

Members of the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus during an October 2019 news conference [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]

Chicago’s Aldermanic Black Caucus will look to the city’s 2022 budget to prioritize bringing more resources and regional development to the city’s South and West sides, according to the group’s leader. 

Chicago Budget Director Susie Park speaking during a budget engagement forum last week

City budget officials were set on Monday to brief aldermen on the city’s finances for the second quarter of 2021 and review this year’s police budget as the city prepares to launch into the throes of the 2022 budget season. But city leaders canceled the meeting on Friday, punting on the hearing back for the third time this month.