Updated 6/29/2021 5:44 PM
Just ahead of a planned vote to remove an old Elk Grove Village law that makes it illegal to wear clothes intended for the opposite sex, the mayors in Schaumburg and Des Plaines said Tuesday they hope to remove similar language in their municipal codes.
All three towns have 1960s-era laws on the books that label the wearing of opposite-sex clothing indecent offenses. On Wednesday morning, Elk Grove s village board is scheduled to vote to repeal its 1961 ordinance, just hours before a rally originally planned to protest the law.
Des Plaines Mayor Andrew Goczkowski and Schaumburg Mayor Tom Dailly said they learned of similar laws in their towns in recent days from Elk Grove resident and attorney Jim Naughton, who alerted Mayor Craig Johnson to the Elk Grove Village code provision a year ago.
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A 1961 Elk Grove Village ordinance banning people from wearing clothes "properly belonging to the opposite sex" is scheduled for repeal by the village board next Wednesday morning, heading off a planned protest by a group later that afternoon.
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