Chaos at City Council as Ald. Lopez attempts to take over meeting after lights turned off – Crain’s*

The meeting will be remembered as one of the City Council’s most chaotic since the infamous Council Wars of the 1980s. It doubled as a message that a growing number of City Council members are frustrated over the city’s handling of providing shelter for the 20,000 asylum seekers who’ve arrived in Chicago since last August. Lopez described the meeting as a "shitshow."
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2 years ago

The last thing dems from Biden to JB to our psuedo socialist city council needs is for local yokel chump taxpayer/voter to overwhelmingly overturn their sanctuary agenda right before convention time…were just turnen out the lights on your ass!! WOW!! Trib & St didn’t even cover this story

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2 years ago

Obviously biggest fear for dems form Biden to CTU/Brandon & company is a city vote on sanctuary status right before dem convention would show Blacks ( and i wouldn’t be surprised if Latinos) are 100% opposed to migrants/ sanctuary status.

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