Illinois cities unveil rival housing plan to Gov. JB Pritzker’s sweeping zoning plan – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

While the governor’s plan would require municipalities statewide to allow denser housing, the Illinois Municipal League’s bill, introduced by state Rep. Will Davis, makes participation voluntary by dangling state money as an incentive rather than wielding state authority as a hammer. Local leaders have spent months objecting to Pritzker’s plan as an unprecedented state intrusion into their authority to shape their own communities.