Chicago City Council committee to take up ordinance on changes to curfew for minors

Earlier this week, Mayor Lightfoot issued an govt order to vary the curfew for minors, transferring it from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The plan to place that into metropolis code will go earlier than the Metropolis Council Public Security Committee Friday.

Chicago curfew for minors goes into impact; ACLU pushes again

The mayor’s curfew for minors 12 years of age and older prohibits them from remaining in any public place or on the premises of any institution inside the metropolis between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on all seven days of the week.

The mayor now needs to make {that a} long-lasting municipal code as a substitute of simply an govt order. The Metropolis Council will in the end need to log off on that.

However there might be challenges contending the proposed ordinance is unconstitutional.

“Most courts who’ve weighed in on curfews have concluded that they’re constitutional and that is primarily based on an extended current ordinance in Chicago referring to curfew, so I think it could stand up to any problem the constitutionality,” Gill Soffer, ABC7 Authorized Analyst, stated.

Millennium Park restrictions issued by Mayor Lightfoot take impact

The mayor additionally imposed new restrictions at Millennium Park, which began Thursday night time.

From Thursday by Sunday, unaccompanied minors are usually not allowed in Millennium Park after 6 p.m. except they’re with at the very least one accountable grownup.

The mayor introduced the measure after violence broke out final weekend. Crowds of younger individuals gathered within the Loop and a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed close to the “Bean” sculpture.