CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO TABLE SWEET HOME CHICAGO ORDINANCE

Last week, the Chicago City Council voted 28 to 19 in favor of tabling the proposed Sweet Home Chicago Ordinance, which would require 20 percent of all TIF Funds to be set aside for affordable housing projects.  A competing Ordinance, introduced by Alderman Patrick O’Connor (40th Ward), which would have made the 20 percent affordable housing set aside a goal rather than a requirement and which was supported by Finance Committee Chair Ed Burke (14th Ward) and Mayor Daley, was also tabled.

Any vote on the Sweet Home Chicago Ordinance will now be delayed until after the February 22nd elections when a new Mayor and a new City Council take office.  With a new Mayor and potentially many new Aldermen, it is unclear whether Sweet Home Chicago sponsor Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. (27th Ward) will be able to garner enough votes to pass the Ordinance.

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