Planning department Deputy Comm. Kathy Dickhut presenting an update on the “We Will” plan during a March 18 Chicago Plan Commission meeting

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Ald. Pat Dowell (3), a former city planning official who now chairs the City Council’s Committee on Budget and Government Operations, had a simple question for leaders of the Department of Planning and Development about their forthcoming “We Will” plan during a budget hearing last fall.

“We will what?” Dowell asked planning department Comm. Maurice Cox in November. “Plan for a better downtown? We will plan for a better neighborhood? …That's not clear.”