Chicago mayor declares war on church that held services - pasted no parking signs that blanketed the neighborhood https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/chicago_mayor_declares_war_on_church_that_held_services_collateral_damage_hits_neighbors.html Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot may have exempted herself from her own prohibition on haircuts, but she made and carried out drastic, and probably illegal, threats against a church that announced its plans to hold Sunday services yesterday. Evidently, only important people like the mayor get to exercise their constitutional rights. Yesterday, the mayor carried out her threat… and then some. Via Second City Cop: Here is a picture of one of the no parking signs that blanketed the neighborhood, courtesy of an AT reader. Note that as threatened,  it covers all day, not just the time of the church service. The neighborhood, which is densely populated, is ordinarily crowded and difficult to park in, which is why the church has leased use of a bank parking lot in Sundays. This all day prohibition punshed local residents, perhaps in an effort to turn them against the church that graces their area.  The church is a large and beautiful edifice, an asset to thenighborhood. (photo credit: a reader) In a later post, Second City Cop points out that by blocking the parking lot, forcing parishioners out onto the streets where they were towed away, the police probably violated the law: These measures taken by Mayor Lightfoot smack of fanaticism, a personal animus against religion.