Business and labor leaders determined to prevent Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) from becoming chair of the City Council’s Zoning Committee have drafted a compromise candidate who claims he has the votes.

Ald. Felix Cardona (31st) told the Sun-Times Wednesday he has agreed to oppose Sigcho-Lopez, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice, and is certain he has the votes he needs to win the powerful job — with or without the mayor’s acquiescence.

An attorney for embattled Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard said Tuesday that “corrupt” village trustees are trying to take control of her authority and “are claiming powers they do not have.”

At what was to have been a regularly scheduled Village Board meeting, Beau Brindley, an attorney hired some weeks ago by Henyard, said trustees who are at odds with her have “taken it upon themselves to try to take away the power of the mayor,” and labeled it “political corruption of the worst kind.”

The Springfield City Council delayed a vote on an ordinance that would allow police to fine people for “camping in public”.

The ordinance was filed over Labor Day weekend for emergency passage, meaning it could have been passed at Tuesday night’s meeting. There was a massive amount of public pushback to the idea. People spent hours voicing their opinion at the meeting, and the council decided to take the ordinance off of emergency passage and sent it back to committee.

Kane County Board Chairman Corinne Pierog said Wednesday that a First Amendment zone was created at the Kane County Government Center to ensure people had a place to speak — not to prohibit them from doing so anywhere else on the campus.

But people who have been handing out leaflets at the county campus in Geneva say Pierog established the zone last week because the materials criticized her.