Amidst a Year Full of Murders, Deaths and Misery from COVID-19
As COVID-19 began to tighten its grip on the world last April, at least one humane event made 2020 more than just a year to forget – the third largest city in the U.S. became one of a growing number of cities worldwide to ban horse-drawn carriages.
Chicago’s City Council overwhelmingly approved the measure to not renew licenses for horse-drawn carriages as of Jan. 1, 2021. The ordinance languished for more than two years before it came up for a vote around the time the pandemic began.
“The Chicago Alliance for Animals is overjoyed that Chicago officials finally acknowledged that humane tourism is the way of the future and banned this inhumane, archaic and dangerous relic before a human or horse suffers or dies from this unnecessary activity, like so many have in other cities,” Chicago Alliance for Animals Executive Director, Jodie Wiederkehr, who has worked on the ban since 2017.