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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Decorum call: City Council moves to rein in unruly crowds, threatening behavior at its meetings

Dozens of Pro-Palestinian and Palestinian American demonstrators protest in the lobby of City Hall after being removed from the City Council chambers during a special Council meeting in October to discuss a proposed resolution condemning the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that killed about 1,200 people in Israel. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

The Chicago City Council’s sergeant-at-arms is laying down the law in a belated attempt to stop members of the public from engaging in raucous, profane and threatening behavior that has left alderpersons fearing for their safety during meetings.

The migrant crisis has exacerbated the tension fueled by anger over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to build winterized base camps to get new arrivals off the floors of police stations and O’Hare Airport before temperatures plummet.

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