Sentence:  For two weeks of what one alderman described as "a long, laborious and exciting struggle," Chicago's property owners did what they had been doing for twenty-five years: they petitioned and remonstrated about their particular blocks until the council drew a line that seemed to place most prolimit proprietors inside and most <WSD>antilimit</WSD> proprietors outside the fire Limit. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Opposed to a limit or limits.