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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitchell Armentrout

Alderperson’s manhandling allegation caps ‘s- - - show’ City Council meeting

Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) speaks during a City Council meeting at City Hall last Wednesday. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Chicago City Council meetings often can be tediously dry, and sometimes even appear scripted. Thursday’s meeting was anything but that.

A tumultuous Council meeting sputtered for hours in parliamentary disarray, then ended with an alderperson accusing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s top ally in the chamber of “manhandling” a colleague to keep her off the voting floor.  

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