
Chicago Sun Times: Housing Advocates offer Mayor Lightfoot a plan to address city's inequity, s
Mayor Lightfoot was urged Wednesday to replace "patchwork planning by Aldermanic prerogative" with community-development decision-making driven by a commitment to racial equity.

Daily Line: Aldermanic prerogative often retrenches City's segregation in white wards
“In white wards, aldermanic prerogative is often used as a tool of the new Jim Crow,” said one advocate. “It is time for us as a city to face our history and to take concerted action to repair it.”