CHICAGO — Chicago aldermen failed to overturn Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s unpopular speed camera rules at Wednesday’s City Council meeting after a long, winding battle waged by one of the mayor’s top critics.
At issue was an ordinance that would have restored the 10 mph-over-the-limit minimum for speed camera citations, versus the 6 mph threshold enacted by Lightfoot as part of her 2021 budget.
The vote — which saw 18 aldermen support the higher minimum and 26 side against it — followed impassioned speeches by aldermen, mostly about the problems of speeding drivers and how to deal with them.
