With a key ally out of the City Council, Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to switch up the aldermen who hold the body’s power levers.

Johnson administration officials are lobbying aldermen with a plan to install a progressive Zoning Committee chair while winning over the council’s powerful ethnic caucuses with upgrades of their own.

But the final result of the mayor’s push to reassign chairmanships remains in question, aldermen said Wednesday.

“I don’t think it’s a done deal until it’s in writing, passed by committee and passed by the full City Council,” Ald. Daniel La Spata said at City Hall Wednesday. “I’ve seen too many things go sideways when actual voting happens.”

La Spata, 1st, confirmed that Johnson’s administration hopes to make him chair of the powerful Zoning Committee. That woul

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