CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - There’s a call by a number of Chicago aldermen to put off a vote on a Gaza cease-fire resolution.
The Chicago City Council is scheduled to vote on a Gaza cease-fire resolution next Wednesday, but more than half the number of alderpeople in the council, 28, have sent a letter to the main sponsor of the resolution asking she postpone the vote.
Fiftieth Ward Ald. Debra Silverstein is the council’s only Jewish member. She and the other council members point out in their letter that International Holocaust Remembrance Day is three days after the scheduled cease-fire resolution vote, and that the vote should be put off for a month in deference to that.
Silverstein also said also hopes language in the resolution can be worked on in the coming month because the current resolution is “very one-sided.”
The resolution’s sponsor, 33rd Ward Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez told the Chicago Sun-Times she’s taking the request seriously.
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