Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday dodged an embarrassing defeat that would have set the stage for her first veto on the volatile issue of how fast motorists can drive before getting a speed-camera ticket.
By a 26-18 vote, the City Council kept the threshold to get a speed camera ticket at 6 mph over the posted speed limit. Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) lost his two-year battle to restore the threshold to 10 mph, where it was before Lightfoot lowered it in her 2021 budget.
