| Good afternoon, Chicago. An ordinance to restore Chicago’s subminimum wage for tipped workers is headed for a vote on Wednesday, potentially setting up Mayor Brandon Johnson’s signature policy win for City Council’s next veto showdown. Johnson opponents motioned last week to force a council floor vote on legislation to pause the One Fair Wage policy, passed in 2023 and now in its third year of moving toward full implementation. However, the coalition would need at least 34 votes to override a potential mayoral veto of their ordinance, which seeks to halt the policy that servers be paid
the city’s full minimum wage on top of tips starting in July 2028. Here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History news Victor Jardon-Reyes, a DACA recipient, sits in his home in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on March 4, 2026. Jardon-Reyes’ application for DACA renewal has been so delayed that he lost his job. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Advocates say delays in paperwork renewal by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have increased, with some delays stretching up to six months. Without the renewal, DACA recipients are in danger of being placed in deportation proceedings. More top news stories: business Actor Taylor Kinney, pictured in the center in a scene from “Chicago Fire,” purchased a New East Side condo for $2.75 million. (Adrian Burrows / NBC) Actor Taylor Kinney, who has starred for more than a decade on the NBC drama “Chicago Fire,” has placed his two-bedroom, 3,380-square-foot exposed brick and timber loft in the West Loop up for rent for $20,000 a month. More top business stories: sports Chicago Cubs pitcher Jameson Taillon (50) pitches in the first inning against the Chicago White Sox during the
Cubs and White Sox first spring training game of the year at Sloan Park on Feb. 20, 2026, in Mesa, Ariz. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) It will be a scorching final full week of spring training, with projected temperatures over 100 degrees in the Phoenix area. The expected extreme heat already has led to time changes for some Cubs and White Sox games. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. Zara Larsson performs at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago for her Midnight Sun Tour, March 15, 2026. (Nate Swanson/for the Chicago Tribune) In her hit single “Midnight Sun,”
off her 2025 album of the same name, Swedish pop star Zara Larsson said summer isn’t over yet, and she wasn’t kidding. Despite the chilly late-winter temperatures that later turned into torrential downpours and overnight snowfall, Larsson transformed her sold-out show yesterday at the Riviera Theatre into a midsummer dance party. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world Newer skyscrapers flank the communist-era Palace of Culture and Science, foreground, in Warsaw, Poland, May 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today, the economy of the country has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest with more than $1 trillion in annual output. More top stories from around the world: | 
