Reilly harnesses his own proposal to rein in horse-drawn carriages
(WorldNews Politics)

Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly on Tuesday harnessed his own proposal to narrow the temperature range for Chicago´s horse-drawn carriages, but renewed his threat to ban them from city streets and restrict carriages to lakefront parks. Reilly retreated after the Horseman´s Council of Illinois argued that prohibiting from operating whenever the temperature rises to 80 degrees or drops to 20 degrees was unnecessary to protect horses and would only drive an already shrinking industry out of business. `They´re not working that hard that 10 degrees on either side of the fence is going to affect them. How their bodies work - raising the temperature 10 degrees and lowering it to 80 [degrees] does not...