Politics & Government
Alderman To Try Again To Pass Earlier Curfew For Downtown Chicago After Shootings At Teen Takeovers
"If we allow this to continue, soon the bullets will kill someone instead of wounding them," Ald. Brian Hopkins argued.
April 16, 2025
An alderman representing part of downtown Chicago plans to call for a City Council vote on Wednesday on a controversial curfew plan to keep teens from causing trouble at night.
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Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd), who chairs the City Council Public Safety Committee and whose ward includes much of downtown, has been pushing to change the curfew for unaccompanied minors downtown from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m. since last summer.
That proposal has been bottled up without a vote amid opposition from the mayor, but Hopkins has said he plans to push for a City Council vote on his proposal at Wednesday's City Council meeting, after two people were shot during a pair of teen takeovers within weeks of each other last month in Streeterville.
