Aldermen Vote To Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages Starting In 2021
The City Council is pulling the reins on Chicago's horse-drawn carriage industry, effectively banning them from operating in the city starting next year.
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The City Council is pulling the reins on Chicago's horse-drawn carriage industry, effectively banning them from operating in the city starting next year.
The ordinance would give the mayor's Chief Procurement Officer Shannon Andrews power to enter into contracts of up to $1 million for coronavirus-related needs without requiring City Council approval.
Bailey, a Republican from downstate Xenia, claims Pritzker has exceeded his authority and is violating the civil rights of the state's residents.
Some downstate and rural area residents feel they are bearing the brunt of the stay-at-home order with Chicago.
The governor also will make some modifications to the stay-at-home order to gradually reopen some state parks, to allow golf, and to permit some non-essential businesses to offer online sales for pickup or delivery.
"We are also looking ahead to the next phase of this challenge to develop ways Chicago can emerge from the unprecedented event stronger than before."
Another dismal unemployment report is expected on Thursday amid this coronavirus crisis.
With bills and rent due, she made yet another effort. She emailed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.
"I am thinking a lot about my message to the students who are graduating into a world that's probably very different that they entered when they started as freshmen. So I will reflect upon that I would expect," she said.
"Look how well that's working. You see the pictures of people, they just flock back to the beaches in mass. I don't know what world that guy's living in, but he's not living in planet reality," Lightfoot said.
The city and all essential businesses would be required to pay for face coverings for all of their workers, and require them to cover their mouth and nose whenever interacting with the public.
"I too want it to be back to normal as fast as possible. I think we all recognize that normal is going to look a little different going forward, until there's a vaccine until we can literally rid our state, our country, our planet of this scourge, of COVID-19."
The City Council will now reconvene Friday afternoon for a final vote on an ordinance giving the mayor's budget team greater spending authority during the pandemic.
Tuesday marked one month since the stay-at-home order to fight the novel coronavirus went into effect in Illinois. Now, there are indications from both Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot that the order might be extended.
The 23-10 vote by the Budget Committee came only after the mayor's office agreed to scale back the ordinance, and after Tuesday's virtual meeting was delayed for an hour so the mayor rally support.
