‘Our children are watching:’ Lightfoot warns aldermen after tense debate over whether LGBT-owned businesses face discrimination

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Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35), left, and Ald. Mike Rodriguez (22), right, flank Mayor Lori Lightfoot as she touts expanded protections for immigrants. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned aldermen not to let a push to determine whether businesses that are owned by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Chicagoans face discrimination spiral into an debate that pitted gay Chicagoans against Black and Latino Chicagoans.

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