The City Council drove the final nail in the coffin for a controversial "snap curfew" ordinance, upholding Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto of the measure that would have allowed police to impose a youth curfew anywhere in Chicago on as little as 30 minutes' notice.

The Council fell six votes shy of overriding Johnson’s veto of an ordinance allowing the Chicago police superintendent to enact a curfew targeting gatherings of young people anywhere in the city with 30 minutes' notice.

Chicago alders tried and failed to override Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto of a measure that would have given Chicago Police Department Supt. Larry Snelling power to declare a three-hour curfew anywhere in the city with 30 minutes notice.