Greystone homes in North Lawndale. City leaders are proposing to put millions of public dollars behind a campaign to sell and redevelop hundreds of city-owned vacant lots in the neighborhood. [Pascal Sabino/Block Club]

Chicago will dedicate up to $5.3 million in tax-increment financing to help clean up a network of 100 North Lawndale vacant lots so they can be redeveloped into single-family homes and sold at reduced rates under a measure set to be advanced by aldermen on Monday.