‘Amazon tax,’ video gaming terminal legalization ordinance banished to Rules Committee

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday that she opposes a proposal to legalize video gaming terminals in Chicago.

Aldermen on Monday sabotaged a series of their colleagues’ proposals aimed at averting Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposed $94 million property tax hike, but one pitch by a group of Democratic Socialist aldermen to raid three of the city’s most lucrative tax-increment financing districts remain on the table.

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