CHICAGO (WLS) — Mayor Brandon Johnson officially vetoed a controversial curfew ordinance during Wednesday’s City Council meeting.

The Council’s attempt to override the mayor failed, with a 27 to 22 vote.

The ordinance’s sponsor, 2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins, said he needed 34 votes from aldermen to counter the mayor’s veto.

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Johnson discussed his veto of the ordinance during a news conference on the fifth floor of City Hall Wednesday ahead of the vote.

It was the first mayoral veto since 2006.

Johnson was flanked by progressive aldermen.

The proposed ordinance, which has gone through months of political wrangling and at one point appeared to be favored by Johnson, would have allowed the Chicago police superintendent to declare a curfew for three hours with just 30 minutes notice.

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Preventing “teen takeovers” was a large part of the rationale for the proposed curfew in the first place, after two in Streeterville turned violent.

A 10 p.m. curfew has existed in Chicago for years.

Opponents believe the proposed ordinance is unconstitutional.

Johnson has called the measure, which was revived in March, bad public policy that could lead to lawsuits.

During his news conference, Johnson said his office is continuing to pour into the city’s young people.

“It doesn’t mean criminalizing our young people,” Mayor Johnson said. “We need to stand firm and do what is right, and that means investing in our young people. That is why, this summer, I am so proud that we will hire 29,000 young people for summer jobs: a 45% increase since taking office.”

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“The superintendent sat at that meeting with me and asked for this,” Alderman Hopkins said. “He asked for this ordinance to be passed. And the mayor just denied that. This is unconscionable, and the city of Chicago needs to know when the next violent ‘teen takeover’ that happens, when the blood sheds, it is on them.”

As the mayor touted what he says is a major reduction in violent crime so far this year, as well as investments in summer youth jobs, Hopkins accused him of pulling a bait and switch.

“This ordinance was written in his office, with his participation and with the superintendent’s full input,” Hopkins said. “(The CPD superintendent) needs this. He knows how to use this effectively. He knows how to use it constitutionally. The advantage to the curfew ordinance was that you could remove teens from the event without arresting them. Now that alternative has been taken away.”

Alders on both sides said Wednesday that, while the veto override failed, there is still work to be done to come up with a solution to the “teen takeovers.”

It just won’t be a curfew expansion, at least for now.

“We got kids and adults out there; it’s not a decision to celebrate. We still have a lot of work to do,” 40th Ward Ald. Andre Vasquez said.