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Article: Council OKs Home-Based Businesses // Daley's Reorganization Passes
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 3, 1995
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Chicago's new majority-minority City Council voted Tuesday to
legalize home-based businesses and bar them from hiring employees,
but temporarily shelved a proposal to ease liquor license
moratoriums.
Over the objections of a handful of black and Hispanic aldermen,
the Council approved Mayor Daley's controversial reorganization plan
that spurns cost-cutting in favor of rewarding friends.
Before the 35-12 vote, Aldermen John Steele (6th) and Joseph
Moore (49th) criticized the mayor for failing to reduce spending in
response to the uproar over hefty aldermanic pay raises.
Ald. Robert Shaw (9th) complained that blacks and Hispanics,
who together hold a Council majority, were being ...