Reacting to the blitz of arrests and activity by federal immigration agents in the area, the village of Oak Park has decided to tweak how it enforces its ban on gas powered leaf blowers. Tickets for using a gas powered leaf blower will, for the time being, only be issued to property owners and not to contractors. And the village will stop taking photos of those using gas powered leaf blowers.

The change came last week after village trustee Cory Wesley had proposed suspending the enforcement of the ban of gas powered leaf blowers, which went into effect on June 1. He said enforcement would cause fear and anxiety among landscape workers.

“The folks who are impacted most disproportionately by our leaf blower ordinance are predominantly Latino,” Wesley said Oct. 14. “Those also happen to be

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