Four years later, City Council finally poised to extend lobbyist requirements to nonprofits

A Chicago City Council committee approved new regulations on lobbying by nonprofit agencies. (Sun-Times file)

Chicago is finally getting around to broadening the definition of registered lobbyists to include nonprofits, but only after softening the blow to avoid tying their hands with costly red tape.

Four years ago, then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot convinced the City Council to approve the latest in a seemingly endless string of ethics reforms in response to the corruption scandal at the center of the ongoing trial of former Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th).