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City Council Votes on Event Promoters Ordinance Tomorrow!

Posted By Christopher M. Walsh On May 13, 2008 @ 9:57 am In Art, City Life, Community, Entertainment, Events, Music, News, Politics, Theater | Comments Disabled

The Event Promoters ordinance will go before the city council at 10:00 AM, Wednesday, May 14th. I received an e-mail about a campaign to flood city hall with opponents of this ordinance. The campaign is being organized through The Point ^[1], and the goal is for 100 people to commit to attending the council meeting tomorrow. Save Chicago Culture ^[2] will present a petition opposing the ordinance at the meeting.

Because the proposal was fast-tracked through committee, the Chicago arts community has had very little time to respond. I, for one, will be attending the council meeting tomorrow. If you care about preserving Chicago’s theatre, music and comedy I expect to see you there too. If you can’t make it, please e-mail your alderman ^[3] today and express your opinion.

Otherwise, I suppose you could just pay a hundred bucks a pop and go see Wicked again.

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[1] The Point: https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/stop-the-event-promoters-ordinance

[2] Save Chicago Culture: http://savechicagoculture.org/

[3] e-mail your alderman: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/city/webportal/portalProgramAction.do?channelId=-536879035&programId=536879154&topChannelName=Government&Failed_Reason=Session+not+found&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&Failed_Page=%2fwebportal%2fportalProgramAc

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