CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will seek City Council approval for the 10 p.m. weekend curfew for minors that she announced after a teenager was shot and killed at Millennium Park on Saturday.
The mayor originally said she would issue an executive order imposing the curfew. She did so “under her emergency powers,” City Law Department spokeswoman Kristen Cabanban said, but “she always intended to codify the change and get full Council approval.”
The emergency order took effect Tuesday when it was filed with the city clerk’s office, Cabanban said. The council’s public safety committee is due to vote Friday on formally moving up the 11 p.m. curfew now on the books.
