>> Chicago City Council members today rejected a push to lower the speed limit on most city streets.

While supporters say dropping the speed limit by 5 miles an hour would save lives.

Opponents warn of unintended consequences.

Here's a bit of the debate.

>> All of this matters because even that 5 mile per hour difference.

Cut in half the likelihood.

But your vehicle kills the person that he crashes into.

Why are we doing this right now?

Despite the fact that I would say notably, we have never in the past decade, but fewer than 100 traffic fatalities in any given year.

This is an essential tool.

The polls in city, why?

>> Lauren >> of the speed limit.

We'll have unintended consequences that they not be may not have been looked at today.

>> Our Heather Sharon joins us from City Hall with more on this move.

Had to remind us what this proposal would have done.

>> Will the speed limit right now Chicago streets is 30 miles an hour.

This measure would have dropped that to 25 miles an hour in an effort to encourage people to slow down to stop the stem of it trend of deadly crashes that have caused serious injuries and deaths since the pandemic changed how we all drive.

Now, opponents said that this was rush that they need more time to study such a big change with they said could increase gridlock and causes.

We heard Alderman Irvine say a host of unintended consequences.

Head of the council voted 28 to 22 against this ordinance.

Why did it fail?

>> Well, it failed because essentially the Black caucus voted on mask against it and many of its members said that they were concerned that this would lead to increased enforcement by Chicago police officers on the city streets that could lead to negative interactions between residents and police officers and could lead their residents with tough fees to pay that they can't afford as they struggle to afford the basic necessities of life.

There is also a sense that this proposal was designed more with the North side in mind that in the South and the West side.

And that is always a recipe for disaster on the city council's him to clarify a header.

I misspoke.

That vote was 28 to 21.

Not 22 in another action today, City Council agreed to pay 27 million dollars to the family of a woman.

>> Who was killed by a driver fleeing Chicago police.

You took a look at the cost of these pursuits.

What did you find?

>> Well, since 2019, which was the year that Chicago entered into that federal court order requiring reforms that city taxpayers have spent nearly 102 million dollars to resolve more than 2 dozen lawsuit stemming from police wrist pursuits.

Today's was just the latest.

It will go to the family of Angela Parks and her 5 children.

She was killed by a driver fleeing police as part of an unauthorized chase.

She was left a quadriplegic and died 18 months after the crash in what I think was a truly, truly just ate, really displayed the toll that these crashes have taken on Chicago streets.

Heartbreaking case.

It sounds like thrown a city