>> Today promised to be another day of high drama at City Hall.

But 2 high-profile showdowns failed to materialize while a push to lower the city speed limit failed to get an up or down vote.

A super majority of the city council quickly rejected an effort to scale back protections for undocumented immigrants.

Here's Mayor Brandon Johnson celebrating Today City Council decision to not amended the city's welcoming city ordinance >> families can.

be assured that today's display of this broad coalition that beat back an ordinance that quite frankly, was just stoking the flames of fear.

And so we're already off to a stronger start than where we were.

You know, you know, you know, 8 years ago.

>> W t Tw News reporter Heather Sharon joins us now with the latest.

Header.

City Council voted 39 to 11 without even a debate to not even consider this effort to scale back the welcoming city ordinance.

Everyone expected some fierce debate didn't happen Well, I think that immigration advocates who spent the last several days really raising the alarm that had this amendment passed.

It would have made people who already feel very vulnerable looking to inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, even more vulnerable.

Also, it helps that the Chicago Police Department said, hey, this would be illegal under state law because the only trust act prevents local law enforcement agencies working with immigration agents.

So >> in the end it seemed to them.

Super majority of City Council said this was a debate essentially about nothing that wouldn't have really done anything to make the city safer as its supporters said, but would only stoke as we heard the mayor say those fires sort of surrounding immigration and Chicago's thousands of undocumented resident.

And so where does this leave those thousands of Chicagoans who are undocumented as the second Trump administration begins next week?

Well, Mayor Johnson said he, you know, really believes that there's a great deal of fear out there in Chicago right now in 2017, we saw people really stop sending their kids to school because of concerns about immigration raids.

We saw families declining to call 9-1-1.

Are going to hospitals to get needed care.

So it's really not clear what's going to happen come next week.

It's also not clear that the president who will soon be now.

Now the president elect soon the president will make good on those threats to start that mass deportation effort here in Chicago City Council.

Also, though, or they didn't vote on whether to reduce the city's default speed limit by 5 miles an right at that ever hit a red light.

Well, if you don't have the votes, you don't vote.

And that's what happened today.

Al Durham and Daniel, the spot has been pushing this for many months and he sent Ali said, look, he didn't have the votes because of concerns that this would be used by the city to grab more cash from people, maybe a little bit of lead flooded on Chicago streets.

Instead, the city council nearly unanimously agreed to fall to form a working group.

They're going to try to make sure that if they do lower the speed limit, it doesn't come on the backs of Chicago's black and Latino respect.

And so then we'll that measure come back.

We'll either of these measures come back.

So they both could come back.

There is no end to the debate over undocumented immigrants in Chicago.

There is no end to the debate over how best to make Chicago streets safer.

This was just sort of an inflection point that didn't really do a whole lot.

But we'll be keeping a watch on and said, January.

Interesting Hetero, thanks so Thanks.

Brandis.