More than 75 educators joined the one-day fast to block Southside Recycling from opening, too. The initial hunger strikers completed their 12th day without food Monday.

The Pilsen Food Pantry, 1850 S. Throop St., has opened its building as a warming center, too.

The proposed overhaul of the city's affordable requirements ordinance would also stop letting developers pay a fee to get out of building on-site affordable units.

Developers are pitching a 19-story condo tower on South Sangamon Street and a 47-story skyscraper on West Washington Boulevard.

The anti-deconversion ordinance aims to interrupt the loss of cheap housing stock in the gentrifying neighborhoods.

The anti-deconversion push aims to interrupt the loss of cheap housing stock in the gentrifying neighborhoods.

The project, dubbed Casa Durango, is an extension of another project. Combined, they will add 53 affordable units to the neighborhood.

A separate measure aimed at banning demolitions for six months in Pilsen to slow gentrification failed to pass, too.

For months, longtime Pilsen neighbors and the alderman have demanded a vote on the unpopular proposal, hoping it can be formally struck down. They worry it will stack working-class homeowners with added costs.

Dozens of neighbors, including one whose front door is feet away from the proposed arcade bar entrance, say the bar will bring more traffic and create a public nuisance.

With cases spiking, Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) was among a group of people calling on the city and state to add more permanent testing sites across the city.

The event hosted is noon-4 p.m. Saturday at Harrison Park, 1824 S. Wood St.

Pilsen residents and community leaders have demanded a vote for months on the unpopular proposal, hoping it can be formally struck down.

Planning Commissioner Maurice Cox said the church was not in any “immediate threat” of being demolished — but smaller buildings in Pilsen are.

The statewide eviction moratorium is "simply not enough" in Chicago, where illegal lockouts are on the rise, one organizer said.

Neighbors fear a landmark district would increase costs for longtime Latino homeowners, pushing them out of the area.

Although some aldermen say little has changed since Lightfoot sought to limit aldermanic veto power, others are pushing back. “Unfortunately what we’ve seen so far is much worse: mayoral prerogative," one alderman said.

The giveaway will take place 5-7 p.m. at Benito Juarez Community Academy, 1450 W. Cermak Road.

Following backlash, Chicago Police deleted most of the posts. Officials said they will now stop tweeting out the home blocks of people who are arrested.