“We would never, as a body, allow anything to pass through this with this magnitude of economic impact, and not have (minority) participation,” Ervin said during last week’s hearing on his ordinance. “Every bond deal that goes through here, we’re hawks on, if there’s African American, Latino participation. Every other type of financial transaction that comes through this body, we have these same questions, and this same question needs to be asked about cannabis, adult-use cannabis here in the city of Chicago.”
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