Chicago, the more restrictive city, has consistently higher rates of gun violence than Houston, where it's legal to walk around with a shotgun slung over one shoulder.
Faced with the rise of restrictive city gun laws in Pennsylvania, the National Rifle Association and its allies persuaded the legislature in 2014 to pass a state law to override the local rules though a court later overturned the law.
Earlier this year, Alphonse Fletcher Jr., a prominent black investor and former president of the building's board, sued the co-op, one of the most restrictive in the city, charging discrimination, defamation, breach of fiduciary duty and retaliation after the board rejected his application to buy an apartment next to his eight-room, 2,600-square-foot, three-bedroom apartment.
If the law is too restrictive, he said, the city should work with other cities and telecommunications companies to lobby for more flexibility in spending the fees.
"I always thought it was funny that Freedom Tower was almost certain to have some of the most restrictive security in the city," said a respondent signed Dave.
Mayor Richard M. Daley has long insisted that the city's restrictive gun laws — including the handgun ban that was essentially nullified recently by the United States Supreme Court — have been a key crime-fighting tool.
But it has also done the twist in Times Square to protest the city's restrictive cabaret laws, blessed a church's Thanksgiving feast in Sunnyside, Queens, and rallied anti-World Trade Organization troops in Washington.
May 16 2015 In 2006, while activists were fighting the city's restrictive 1926 Cabaret Law in court, the arts administrator Greg Miller was organizing a nonprofit, Dance Parade, Inc, that would take the issue to the streets, literally: a year later, at its first event, thousands of fleet-footed folks twirled through Manhattan, from 31st Street and Broadway to Washington Square Park.
In the 1960's it underwent a change as, in the wake of a 1948 Supreme Court ruling that had struck down the city's restrictive housing covenants, more and more black residents moved into areas of Chicago that had long been denied to them.
The city's restrictive licensing laws only serve to compound matters.
Over the past two decades, an influx of tech workers has accelerated demand while the city's restrictive zoning laws stymied construction.
