Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to make it tougher for industries that pollute the air to set up shop near Chicago homes advanced Monday, though it still faced push back from skeptical aldermen who said it doesn’t do enough.
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A month into a hunger strike protesting the relocation of the General Iron metal-shredding business to the Southeast Side, activists said they were ending their campaign and noted their disappointment that Mayor Lori Lightfoot didn’t meet with them.
Yesenia Chavez, a lifelong resident of the Southeast Side and one of the first four hunger strikers, said at a rally Thursday night that she lost 17 pounds and experienced a host of physical and psychological stresses.
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“I was 134 pounds when I started. Today I am 117 pounds,” Chavez told a crowd of around 150 supporters outside Grace United Methodist Church near Lightfoot’s house in Logan Square.
Chicago’s speed cameras start churning out $35 tickets March 1
Chicago’s speed cameras start churning out $35 tickets March 1 Chicago’s mayor said speed cameras will enforce a lowered tolerance March 1 as a way to curb traffic fatalities. Critics see the $35 tickets as a money grab when residents are still reeling from the COVID-19 economic downturn.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new speed camera policy took effect March 1, slapping motorists caught driving 6 to 10 mph over the posted speed limit with a $35 ticket in the mail.
While Lightfoot cited a surge in traffic deaths as the reason for lowering the ticket threshold, critics said it’s really about generating revenue.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot accused Ald. Ed Burke Thursday night of trying to sabotage her plans for Covid-19 relief funding the way he thwarted legislation decades ago during the notorious Council Wars.
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Critics of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Supt. David Brown on Thursday agreed with the findings of a new report that says the police department was “outflanked” and “underprepared” for last summer’s riots with one alderman saying Brown should be fired.
Some aldermen also said the mayor should have asked for help from the National Guard earlier and used those troops to protect businesses from looting in the city’s neighborhoods. They want hearings into the failures detailed in Inspector General Joe Ferguson’s report.
That report says the mayor and superintendent didn’t anticipate the level of violence and looting that swept downtown and cascaded into the city’s neighborhoods from May 29 through June 1.