Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford is again caling for change after new data shows more than 2.5 times as many red-light camera tickets were issued on Chicago’s South Side over a yearlong period than at intersections where cameras are installed on the city’s North Side.

Data analyzed by the Illinois Policy Institute of the 614,498 tickets that were issued across the city – accounting for $61.4 million in fines through September – show red-light cameras on the South Side issued an average of 9,132 tickets, or 5,521 more than each North Side camera.

Of all the new revenue sources being studied to minimize or eliminate the need to raise property taxes, none has divided the City Council like raising garbage collection fees.

Chicago’s garbage collection fee has been frozen at $9.50-a-month since being imposed in 2016. It raises $68.8 million, covering just 40% of the city’s $167.2 million in annual refuse collection costs.

Illinois senators passed a bill Wednesday to expand treatment for people suffering from chronic pain.

States implemented policies in 2016 that severely restricted doctors from prescribing opioids, even though chronic pain patients needed them.