Workers build floating wetlands to become part of the Wild Mile during the first phase of the “Floating Boardwalk and Habitat” project in 2019 [Hannah Boufford/Block Club Chicago]

A City Council committee is set to give a green light on Wednesday to more than $2.5 million in new funding for landscape and park-related projects around the city, including a nearly $1.8 million infusion to accelerate development of the “Wild Mile” ecological restoration corridor on the Near North Side.