tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post6842226571011463014..comments2024-03-17T15:59:53.999-05:00Comments on ArchitectureChicago PLUS: The Red and the Black: Hey, Mies - Here come the Hawks!Lynn Beckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759748613223711212noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-20432369965338275062010-06-14T21:34:33.524-05:002010-06-14T21:34:33.524-05:00Let's see: Boston Commons: 500,000 people; Ne...Let's see: Boston Commons: 500,000 people; New York City: 3,000,000 people. Somehow they manage they put these shows on every year without the city disintegrating. Poor, fragile Chicago that she can no longer be bothered to figure it out. So much easier to get rid of the rabble and leave the alcohol to wine-sipping yuppies on the beaches.Lynn Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759748613223711212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-23024789302272375392010-06-14T21:18:26.579-05:002010-06-14T21:18:26.579-05:00Sorry to disappoint you. I'm not with the City...Sorry to disappoint you. I'm not with the City or any other agency - just a person who sat every year in Grant Park (trying to hear the GP Orchestra) while drunks vomited all around me.<br /><br />But I am quite familiar with the liquor licenses you reference --thru my volunteer work in the community. The drinking will be limited to vendors' facilities. <br /><br />Hey, I enjoy a drink or two myself. Its the danger that a large number of drunks were causing that made the Grant Park location such a challenge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-9422413210901221572010-06-14T16:17:28.512-05:002010-06-14T16:17:28.512-05:00Always good to hear from the Mayor's press off...Always good to hear from the Mayor's press office, however informally. <br /><br />The mayor must like sober crowds - that's why he's ramping up liquor licenses all along the lakefront. <br /><br />"a million people spending the day getting drunk in Grant Park." wow, thanks for not only insulting me, but telling 1/6 of Chicago that they're violent alcoholics. <br /><br />Every time I think the bs can't get any worse, someone tops it. Crowd control, to be sure, is difficult, but as with so much else, the Daley administration has just become too lazy even to attempt to deal with it. Like George Bush once said, government is <i>hard</i>, so we need to dumb down the city to make it more convenient for the bureaucrats to administer.Lynn Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759748613223711212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-38508060373894669512010-06-14T15:49:55.216-05:002010-06-14T15:49:55.216-05:00The Mayor, et al, love love love big SOBER crowds....The Mayor, et al, love love love big SOBER crowds. Unfortunately the July 3rd fireworks event had evolved into a million people spending the day getting drunk in Grant Park and it was escalating yearly. We can expect that the beach crowds will be checked for liquor (which is already happening in parts of Lincoln Park), which will discourage the all-day drunks from showing up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com