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We're six days from Election Day and we're finally starting to get some of the details nailed down as the City Parks District released the permit application for the event. They include:
- The allowance of "amplified sound" from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
- No live musical performances
- No alcohol will be sold, only drunk in flasksPizza, hot dogs and hot chocolate will be sold
- There will be 265 port-o-potties
- There will be three spotlight towers and two audio towers.
But perhaps the most interesting aspect of the permit is that C3, the promoters, are planning on 7,500 "participants" and 65,000 attendees. This makes sense as they're setting up in the south end of the park, the same area where Radiohead played their headlining set at Lollapalooza this year. But it doesn't jibe with the Mayor's claim that as many as one million people will come by anyway. Chicagoist staffer Karl Klockars went down to Grant Park to check out the set-up and we'll be bringing you those pictures shortly. It's also unclear if 65,000 is the number of "tickets" the Obama campaign set aside for the event. But don't worry if you didn't get one; the Sun-Times is here to help you out.
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Wow.
This guy has the audacity to ask for a "hot chick"?
Like the joke goes: All men think they're just 2 sit ups away from an evening in a hot tub with Elle McPherson.
I may be wrong but I'm guessing any woman who considers herself an "intellectual" won't respond favorably to being called a "chick".
My guess is that this guy will be watching election results at home alone.
He's not offering a ticket to a hot chick, he asking for a hot chick to give him a ticket.
Yup, a typical O'bama supporter "its all about change" right?
I'm voting Green
Ingrid,
He has the audacity of hope. Seems appropriate for an Obama event.
I just plan on heading down there with a hacky sack, a lawn chair, some doritos and a sign that says "Spare some Change, Brah?". I'll get in.
I voted for Obama/Biden today.
i still haven't received the link or email to print my ticket! boo.
i just thought of something ... do you think they're taking all the registrations/information and running them through a database to see if people are felons, etc.?
It's quite possible smussy. Doesn't seem unrealistic. Security around the event is going to be extremely tight and pre-screening people will help law enforcement determine who's going to show up. But I definitely think more than the projected number of people are going to be in attendance. It's going to look like the Taste of Chicago fireworks x3.
smussy: the only problem with that theory is the +1. Why would they screen all of the ticket-holders only to allow them to bring an anonymous friend?
RIGHT, a wu. i forgot about that part. hmm.
Mr. Feldman should realize that a beefed-up bank account is what he needs. Especially with his fish-faced mug.
Obama tickets are nowhere near enough to get him a trophy wife. Or even a dinner with a "hot chick."
Ward read closer he doesnt have an Obama ticket. He is looking for a hot chick with a ticket for him.
Hundreds of thousands of people milling around downtown with pocketflasks full of blackberry brandy schnapps and only 200-some-odd Porto-Potties? That's what I'd be worried about.
265 john's is 8,000 people an hour @ 2mins each. So only about 30% of the crowd should make it to the bathroom. The rest have the bushes.
Word on the street is even if you received one of the original confirmation emails you are not guaranteed a ticket. They have yet to decide how they will be distributed.
I just plan on heading down there with a hacky sack, a lawn chair, some doritos and a sign that says "Spare some Change, Brah?". I'll get in.
No, he'll be outside the fence playing cornhole with his "bros". And wearing shorts and mandles.
That's a pretty terrible picture.
Mainly because he's ugly.
tc3...
"He has the audacity of hope."
hahahahhah so prefect.
Mainly because he's ugly.
Unlike you, I am sure, the sexy sex machine of Chicago.
He appears to be the quintessintial "brodude".
I mean his name's Brad...WTF? Seriously? and looking for"a "pretty intellectual CHICK"? LOL
Oh, and I and the sextasic sexy sex machine of Sexcago