Chicago, Cook County under emergency rule for 22 months. How can that be? – Illinois Policy

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frankns
4 years ago

I wonder if “Home Rule” isn’t the problem here. Almost as if it makes Chicago a law unto itself … What becomes of redress if the City is judge, jury, and executioner?

debtsor
4 years ago

Yet our neighbor’s states’ Supreme Court’s found that never ending emergencies were unconstitutional. Same laws, same emergency powers, and the courts found it illegal.

Ann Burke, you old hag, you going to do the right thing and vote against tyranny like our neighbor BLUE STATES, Michigan and Wisconsin?

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