Alex Nitkin, The Daily Line

A handful of aldermen lit into the sweeping proposed ordinance as an attack on aldermanic power and private property rights, but it ultimately cleared committee.

Lightfoot's proposal to disrupt Chicago's racial segregation, blunt aldermen’s powers to block affordable housing and expand dense, transit-adjacent housing is set for a vote Tuesday.

Good Kids Mad City's plan calls for 2 percent of the Chicago Police Department budget to be reallocated to create neighborhood commissions that promote peace and safety.

Lightfoot's plan to boost housing near transit and whittle away at the city’s segregation won't survive a council vote without a hard-fought battle.

The South Side alderman vowed to tackle the city's crime and would fire Police Supt. David Brown. "The city is lacking in terms of what people want to see in leadership," Sawyer said.

Departing Ald. Michael Scott and his wife are on track to benefit from a city-backed land deal to buy a pair of vacant lots adjoining their North Lawndale home.

From Chicago's first casino to a special meeting where top officials will be grilled on their plans to get ahead of summer violence, here's everything you need to know about today's City Council meetings.

The tentative deal on how to redraw Chicago's 50 wards for the next decades comes less than two weeks before a deadline that would have sent the issue to voters.

Aldermen who have raised a stink over Lightfoot’s pick for a casino at the Tribune Freedom Center site in River West will get their chance to grill city officials Monday.

Neighboring alderpeople and resident groups have fought the casino, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced it as the winning pick Thursday. She still needs City Council and a state agency to sign off on the plan.

The mayor is widely expected to choose the Bally’s River West proposal over the loud objections of neighbors and some aldermen.

County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and other senior county officials made the appeal Tuesday.

Ald. Ariel Reboyras said he introduced the ordinance after former Ald. Joe Moore —now a lobbyist for a private booting company — asked him to.

Developers plan to add to the Fulton Market construction boom by razing the vacant former Bridgford Foods plant at the corner of Green and Peoria streets.

Her position leaves just one casino proposal — Rhode Island-based Bally’s plan to build a resort in River West — whose local alderman has not come out against a gambling site in their own ward.

Neighbors said their biggest concerns were that the casino could lead to more crime in the area and declining home values while contributing to heavy traffic and exacerbating problem gambling.  

If confirmed, Nicole Lee would become the first Chinese-American alderman to serve in Chicago's City Council.

The tollway will make it faster to get to the airport from the suburbs and reduce overcrowding on existing roads by more than 20 percent, an alderman said Wednesday.

City Council will meet Wednesday — but officials won't vote on a new alderman to represent the 11th Ward.

City officials said Tuesday there will be three community meetings held for residents to discuss each of the proposals 6-8 p.m. April 5-7.