The Chicago City Council’s sergeant-at-arms has “postponed until further notice” a controversial change to seating protocols for public meetings that sparked swift and significant backlash when made public just two weeks ago, according to a notice on the City Clerk’s website.
The proposed change, developed by the sergeant-at-arms and the Rules Committee, which appoints that position, would have required members of the public to reserve a seat and show a state, federal, city or school ID to sit in the open, second-floor gallery of the Council chambers.
