On Monday, at an event titled "Reparations Not Black Sites" in downtown Chicago, demonstrators continued to push Emanuel and the city to take up an ordinance that would include further payments to victims under Burge as well as a formal apology from the city, community centers and a requirement for Chicago public schools to teach the history of police abuse in the city.
No bar or restaurant dared violate the ordinance.
"And a lot of the buildings that are going in are over 40ft (12m)." Since 1984, San Francisco has had a "sunlight ordinance" that requires the parks commission to review any proposed building taller than 40ft that might shadow public parks.
The lawsuit claims the protesters have a first amendment right to be at the park 24 hours a day, seven days a week, although Tucson city ordinance imposes park curfews.
Citing its work that dates back to a 2013 reparations ordinance linked to torture by the notorious police officer Jon Burge, the human rights group Amnesty International sent its own letter about Homan Square Wednesday to the justice department official behind the damning Ferguson inquiry.
The strip changed the law in Palm Beach, Florida, where domestic servants were required to register with the police, an ordinance which authorised police checks on every black and Hispanic in sight.
The ordinance will almost certainly be challenged in court.
But suddenly, around the turn of the year, and as the economy has apparently slowed, Mr Modi's government became hyperactive.On December 29th it issued an "ordinance" (a temporary executive order) amending an imperfect land-acquisition act that the previous administration passed in 2013.
The prostitutes have gone underground, thanks to a tough city ordinance passed shortly after Hugh Grant's escapade, and the graffiti have all but disappeared.
It did not stop some opposition politicians from claiming it was a licence for a corporate land-grab at the expense of farmers.Mr Modi may be more prepared than previous prime ministers to govern by ordinance as a means of bypassing Parliament.
Assuming the ordinance is passed, the first certificates could be issued in the summer.Tokyo's gay activists hope that this will eventually lead to the full national adoption of gay-marriage laws.
