Chicago street festivals underestimate crowds by tens of thousands, endangering attendeesCHICAGO —The city of Chicago has been covering the cost of thousands of hours of police overtime at street festivals, despite event organizers being required to pay for it under city law, records show.Chicagoh...
The summer of 1969 saw a proliferation of a relatively new concert genre – the pop/rock festival. As we commemorate the the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, we also reminisce on other iconic music festivals that Chicago (Transit… ...
Chicagohosts hundreds of street festivals each year, with approximately 1,300 events held between 2021 and 2023. During that period, nearly 2,800 Chicago police officers logged a combined total of 27,000 overtime hours to patrol these events, according to a CBS News Data Team analysis of poli...
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and others. This special anniversary programming will be in addition to the annual music festivals, film and music series, workouts, family programming and more offered season-long inMillennium Park—the #1 attraction in the Midwest and among the top 10 most-visited sites in the United States. ...
Grant Park is also the site of a lively series of city-sponsored festivals of blues, jazz, gospel, Latin American, and other specialized music as well as the Taste of Chicago, one of the largest outdoor food festivals in the country. Beginning in 2005, the city became the permanent home...
W. Chicago festivals on chopping block City council may cut funding but hopes to see them privatized.(News)Byline: Jake Griffin Daily Herald Staff Writer The death knell for West Chicago's Railroad...Griffin, Jake
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National Public Radio's (NPR) Peabody Award-winning quiz show, "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!", is not just a program; it's an experience. The show, currently playing at theStudebaker Theater in Chicago, represents the epitome of what happens when the worlds of news, comedy, and compet...