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Saturday, April 20
In a special Monday session called for by Mayor Daley.....the city council approved the mayor's affordable housing plan. Council members had postponed the vote, wanting to wait for the new, potentially more independent, city council to be sworn in. Insert stock quote here about how the mayor always gets his way.