Opinion: Anjanette Young shows the city grace through compromise

In Illinois, as in our nation these days, compromise isn’t really a common thing.

Given our infamous 793-day budget impasse, partisan gerrymandering and Chicago’s tongue-in-cheek political motto of “vote early, vote often,” it was with irony that Texas legislators recently fled here, of all places, to escape their own partisan rancor.

So the recent news that Chicago’s Anjanette Young Ordinance — a years-in-the-making overhaul to the Chicago Police Department’s search warrant policy — could at last get over the finish line in September because of a (gasp) compromise sends some welcome tremors through the current political system.

Young’s horrific experience is among those in the ever-increasing hall of fame of Chicago police mistreatment of Black and brown residents. In February 2019, th