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Emanuel orders crackdown on food truck violators

There's nothing wrong with Chicago's 4-year-old food truck ordinance that can't be remedied by strict enforcement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday.

Emanuel responded to an investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC7 with a promise to do what his own administration has failed to do: Issue a blitzkrieg of citations and fines against food truck owners caught thumbing their noses at the city's much-ballyhooed ordinance.

The mayor noted that, "You could talk about making changes or alterations" to an ordinance that food truck owners insist unfairly ties their hands and makes it virtually impossible for them to earn a living.

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