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Lightfoot earlier this week issued an executive order moving up the curfew for minors. After the ACLU complained, agendas show a new ordinance pitch is coming.
The president visited the supermarket where last weekend’s deadly shooting took place, then forcefully denounced white supremacy and the racist “Replacement” theory that inspired the shooter.
The mayor’s announcement that the citywide weekend curfew on minors would be set at 10 p.m. comes a day after she imposed a ban on unaccompanied minors in Millennium Park after 6 p.m., Thursdays through Sundays.