What’s wrong with this picture?
This sucks. We pay the city to take our picture, and so we can take our own.
By mid-2006, 2,000 cameras and microphones will be stationed around the city monitoring our activities.
EACH CAMERA:$16,000
EACH PORTABLE CONTROL UNIT: $7,000
*That doesn’t include the thousands of cameras owned by private and Fed/State/Local governments.
2005 Fees for taking a picture in Chicago Parks.
STUDENT MEDIA – Currently enrolled students with a media assignment
$50 user fee per location
WEDDING PHOTOS – $50 per hour (Restrictions may apply.)
STILL PHOTO –
$325 maximum security deposit (A seperate payment must be submitted.)
MOVIE, VIDEO and COMMERCIAL
$1200 user fee per location
$5000 maximum security deposit
Signed Permit is valid only once numbered, signed and stamped “approved.”
There are obviously dozens of people everyday taking hundreds of pictures at Millenium Park alone. I kinda want to know where the line is drawn that you need a “media” permit (and I have the feeling that that line is drawn at the whim of park employees — I half-remember a story of someone being told to stop taking pictures at Millenium Park because they had too-nice of a camera).
exactly. My friend Jon and at were at the Conservatory and we saw this interesting statue and so we were going to take a pic of it and they were like you can’t take pictures in here without a permit. We were like “but…” and she was like “YOU CANNOT TAKE PICTURES IN HERE.” She didn’t explain the situation or anything. A friend of mine was taking pics of an ex boyfriend in from Germany while on the train platform at Belmont and the CTA threatened to arrest her. She had a Fuji S2 Digital SLR and that’s what she think maybe set them off.
It’s demented.