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Old 04-16-2010, 01:55 AM
 
Location: Not where you ever lived
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If you stay at the hotel and park there, you might be able to get the hotel service to take you. Might. You'll need a cab to get back.
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Old 04-16-2010, 07:40 AM
 
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You are kidding???
Jan 27th Chicago Tribune:

Chicago's traditional July 3 Grant Park fireworks extravaganza is shelved this year, eliminating one of the city's largest communal experiences that brings more than a million people to the lakefront to spread out blankets, coolers and lawn chairs to watch the colorful spectacle. The fireworks show, which ends a three-decades-plus run, joins the South Side Irish Parade, Venetian Night and the Outdoor Film Festival as major community events that have gone by the wayside in the last year, victims of budget woes or public safety concerns.
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Old 04-16-2010, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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"It's Taste of Chicago -- not Taste of Chicagoland, Taste of Schaumburg or Taste of Riverside.

That's the message City Hall is delivering to suburban restaurants. They're no longer welcome at Chicago's annual orgy of food and music..."

It's the Taste of CHICAGO :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: News (http://www.suntimes.com/news/2164678,CST-NWS-taste16web.article - broken link)

About time.
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Old 04-16-2010, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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You'd think these days the city can ill-afford to turn away any restaurant willing to pony up the cash for a booth or sign over a sponsorship check. If the city doesn't need their money, what do they need to keep raising our taxes and fees for?
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Old 04-16-2010, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Jan 27th Chicago Tribune:

Chicago's traditional July 3 Grant Park fireworks extravaganza is shelved this year, eliminating one of the city's largest communal experiences that brings more than a million people to the lakefront to spread out blankets, coolers and lawn chairs to watch the colorful spectacle. The fireworks show, which ends a three-decades-plus run, joins the South Side Irish Parade, Venetian Night and the Outdoor Film Festival as major community events that have gone by the wayside in the last year, victims of budget woes or public safety concerns.
Well we won't be coming to the Taste this year then. Without the July 3 show, it isn't worth the 700 mile drive.
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Old 04-16-2010, 09:25 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Well we won't be coming to the Taste this year then. Without the July 3 show, it isn't worth the 700 mile drive.
The July 3rd fireworks were not worth a 5 mile drive to begin with ...
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Old 04-17-2010, 12:05 AM
 
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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The July 3rd fireworks were not worth a 5 mile drive to begin with ...
I don't agree. It was one of the best in the country. We always enjoyed it. We even enjoyed walking down the middle of the street with a million other people and cramming into the CTA after the show. It was all fun!
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Old 04-19-2010, 07:46 AM
 
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I thought there was still a show by navy pier, just smaller, and 2 other shows in other locations as well at the same time, its not that there wont be any show, in fact this year it may be better because there wont be one large crowd at 1 show.
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Old 04-20-2010, 11:55 AM
 
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Last year, my girlfriend and I hosted some of her friends who flew in from Miami FL up here to Chicago to go the stupid taste of Chicago...i told them to save their money and not come, as it is really the "WASTE OF CHICAGO"...

-waste of time
-waste of money
-too crowded
-overpriced
-too hot
-pickpockets
-gangbangers
-shootings
-bad food
-trash everywhere
-its not a true representation of "life in Chicago"

Just overall, a bad experience. they came anyway, and boy,m were they dissappointed.
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Old 04-26-2010, 06:30 AM
 
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Come on Taste of Chicago cant be that terrible.. I know its crowded but big crowds really dont bother me all that much, and shootings dont really happen inside the festival, it was outside the festival where it happened a couple of years ago, I'm from northern lower Michigan, and I realize it may not be fun to people who live right in the city but for me it is, hence im from a town with only 4000 people. I dont plan to drive in, but take the south shore train in, stay in the magnificent mile and have a great time. For the 30th anniversary i'm sure there will be some great live music.
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