CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The fate of the proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable remains uncertain after a turbulent Chicago City Council meeting ended abruptly Wednesday.
It was a dispute over Mayor Lightfoot’s nominee as City Corporation Counsel and some short tempers that led to Wednesday’s meeting coming to an early end.
That was before the City Council could act on the proposed renaming of Lake Shore Drive.
A vote on that plan had been postponed by a parliamentary maneuver last month. And sponsor Alderman David Moore noted the rules said it had to be voted on at the next meeting, which was Wednesday; but, he said rules are being broken.
"I've taken tough votes in the past and that's why they elect you, to take tough votes, but you have to take the right vote and you have to do the right thing, and right now, this City Council is not doing the right thing," Ald. Moore said. "It should have been heard here as part of unfinished business by rule, by rule, and it wasn't. And so the rules are being violated. People's democracy is being trampled upon."
Mayor Lightfoot has sought to thwart or make late changes to Moore’s ordinance and he’s resisted. Does he still have enough council votes to pass the ordinance over the Mayor’s objections?
"As of today [Wednesday] we had them, but now, I just don't know," Moore said.
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He worries about Mayor Lightfoot having more time to derail passage of the ordinance before Friday’s council meeting, which Mayor Lightfoot wanted, because Wednesday, two of her critics blocked confirmation of her appointment of Celia Meza as Corporation Counsel, the Administration’s top lawyer.
David Moore wants to make sure DuSable Drive gets consideration, as well.
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