Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to roll back the witching hour and age of Chicago’s seldom-enforced weekend curfew — from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m. for minors under 18 instead of 17 — cleared a key legislative hurdle on Friday despite an avalanche of opposition.
The Committee on Public Safety approved the mayor’s ordinance by a comfortable vote of 14 to 3 that did not reflect the barrage of concerns about a crackdown roundly condemned as a toothless and desperate headline-grabber that will have no impact on an outbreak of youth violence downtown and in Chicago neighborhoods — and might even make it worse.
