If you live in Chicago and care about city services, take note of an important deadline coming up.

Wednesday is the day the City Council is supposed to vote on a new ward map – but no one has seen it yet. As CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reported Tuesday night, many Chicago communities are hoping the new map gives them more unity – rather than leaving their neighborhoods split between oddly-shaped wards each under the jurisdiction of a different alderman.

Recreational pot sales in Illinois have already shattered last year’s records, generating millions in sales tax revenue for municipalities.

So how much are they getting and what are they using it for?

As Illinoisans brace for higher heat bills this winter, the Illinois Commerce Commission is taking steps to avoid a repeat of February’s cold spell that disrupted the flow of natural gas to Illinois.

The storm that blanketed the south-central region of the country forced natural gas processing plants to shut down as liquid froze inside pipes and compressors, dramatically reducing output in the region. The reduction in supply coupled with an increase in demand for home heating by gas-fired electric generators sent natural gas prices soaring from around $3.50 per MMBtu on February 10 to nearly $24 per MMBtu a week later.

With only hours to spare before a midnight deadline, defrocked and disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday asked a U.S. judge to delay his own federal lawsuit that challenges the state’s impeachment process.

“This motion is necessitated not by lack of diligence, but in part due to plaintiff’s work on other matters,” Blagojevich submitted in a motion that he prepared and submitted.

A final deadline to approve a new ward map loomed over the Chicago City Council on Wednesday after weeks of bitter clashes between its Black and Latino caucuses over how the city’s 50 districts should be represented over the next decade.

Shifts in the city’s demographics reflected in the 2020 census spurred an initial push by the Latino caucus to re-carve wards to represent the growing Latino population, which has overtaken the number of Black residents in Chicago.