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Article: City Council repeals foie gras ban.(Briefs)(Brief article)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
- Article date:
- May 19, 2008
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The Chicago City Council voted to overturn a controversial two-year-old ban on serving foie gras by a vote of 37-6 with no debate. Mayor Richard M. Daley called the ban the "silliest'' ordinance the council has ever passed. "It was a statement against animal cruelty, pure and simple,'' Alderman Joe Moore, the ban's original sponsor, said after the vote. "I hope we're done with this nonsense,'' said Doug Sohn, owner of Hot Doug's on the North Side; he was fined $250 in 2007 for a first-time offense of serving foie ...