Chicago aldermen to host forum to explore Mayor Lightfoot's racist crackdown on Arab stores

Several Chicago Aldermen will convene a Special Forum on Monday May 9 at the Islamic Community Center of Illinois (ICCI) at 6435 W. Belmont Avenue to examine the forced closure of more than 150 Arab American owned stores last summer by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The racist targeting of Arab Americans and Muslim store owners resulted int he losses of hundreds of millions of dollars not only in revenues to the store owners but also the collection of sales and gas taxes to the state, county and city of Chicago.

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