City Council approves food cart licenses

Thursday, September 24, 2015
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's street food scene is about to undergo a major overhaul. Thursday morning, the City Council voted to offer food cart licenses.

Those food carts are like the ones you see on the streets of Manhattan.
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An estimated 1,500 unlicensed cart owners already work Chicago streets.

The city's expected to make at least $2 million dollars a year off the new sales tax revenues.
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