Praying for home rule? Invocation can mean many things

“Prosophobia” was the theme when Third Ward Alderman Scott Williamson started his invocation at this week’s Prospect Heights City Council meeting.

He was not talking a higher power or even prose phobia, which sounds like something afflicting poets. No, Williamson was concerned about a fear of progress.

Residents of Prospect Heights will not be surprised to learn that the alderman segued into a talk about the March 20 referendum question about whether the city should adopt home rule.

Obviously a supporter of home rule, Williamson urged voters to adopt “logic” and drop their “fear of the unknown.”

Like those living in 75 percent of the communities in the Chicago area, voters in the city could have a “louder voice about what happens in Prospect Heights,” said the alderman.