Raucous crowds flood Chicago City Council, shut down meeting over sanctuary city issue

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A special City Council meeting to discuss Chicago's sanctuary city status descended into chaos Tuesday.

The meeting was suspended amid a large contingent of loud and angry demonstrators that had taken over the gallery in the City Council chambers, expressing their displeasure over Chicago's status as a sanctuary city. Some protestors were kicked out of the rules committee meeting, which had to be shut down because nobody could hear what anybody was saying.

Many aldermen believe the city is spending way too much money building shelters and housing migrants and are ignoring the needs of their communities. In response, hundreds of protesters descended on City Hall to protest what's happening. "This is what this question is causing right now," said Ald. Anthony Napolitano. "If we are a body of City Council members that are elected to represent our residents and asking them, a simple question because they are dying to be heard and we're denying that, then we voided council. We are not representatives of our neighborhoods and our communities anymore. We're representatives of just this building, and that's not what we're supposed to be doing here.

 

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