Mayor Johnson makes the case against downtown curfew on the eve of City Council showdown – Chicago Sun-Times
The mayor released a so-called “Youth Impact Report” that documented all of the investments the city has made to employ, train, educate and constructively engage young people in neighborhoods across the city. But downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins said Johnson’s mantra about “investing in people” has become a “meaningless cliché” and a mayoral “cop-out,” particularly after a tourist was shot last month.


Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly said the Central Business District has been “sucking wind” with a “collapsing tax base” and “obsolete” office buildings “built as fortresses a century ago.”
Experts said a law’s success would depend on the city’s will to execute and enforce it.