A controversial scrap-metal operator claims in a legal filing that Mayor Lori Lightfoot was politically driven to ignore the city’s own rules and deny the controversial business a permit to open earlier this year — almost a year after it was told officials were “days away” from approving it.
In rejecting the operating permit for Southside Recycling in February, the city made a decision that was a “result of bad faith, bias and/or improper political influence,” lawyers for the business say in a recent filing with the city’s Department of Administrative Hearings.
