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Has it really been two months since Lollapalooza? Feels like it was just yesterday. What did happen yesterday was the announcement that the annual music fest brought in $1.6 million for the Chicago Park District, an increase of $400,000 over last year's take. Said Parks Supt. Timothy Mitchell, "They put on a great show." Indeed. Promoters agreed to cover the cost of repair to the park as well as the cost of the police protection while the Park District was guaranteed $1 million or 8.5 percent of the total take. A total of 225,000 people attended the fest in Grant Park this year, which featured the fest's first sell-outs in its history.
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just remind me next year not to drink those full bottles of wine in the plastic cups as if they were beers!!!
And then the Park District spends the same $1.6M about ten times over (from Sun-Times):
Funds from this year's Lollapalooza will help pay for a new soccer field at McKinley Park, Buckingham Fountain restoration and summer camps for special-needs youths, among other efforts, Palm said.
What about the boondoggle over the soccer field in Lincoln Park? Where did that $2M come from?