{"id":530050,"date":"2010-04-16T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01347fecd980970c"},"modified":"2010-04-16T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:00:38","slug":"daley-defends-booting-suburban-restaurants-from-taste-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530050","title":{"rendered":"Daley defends booting suburban restaurants from Taste of Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Breaking Business News Center<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Taste of Chicago, the city’s annual chowfest in Grant Park, is returning
\n to its original mission of promoting only the city’s restaurants.
<\/br>
\n
<\/br>
\nA handful of suburban-based vendors without restaurants in the city are
\nbeing asked to exit this year, Megan McDonald, executive director of
\nChicago’s Office of Special Events, confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n

Mayor Richard Daley defended the move.
<\/br>
<\/br>"It’s called Taste of Chicago," Daley said during a press conference. "Not Morton Grove, simple as that.
<\/br>
<\/br>"A
\nlot of vendors in Chicago are suffering, so like anything else, you
\nhave to take priorities," he said. "So we’ve taken priorities and say
\n‘Here, those are businesses in Chicago, they pay real estate taxes,
\nsales tax and everything else, and it’s (funded) by city money, so
\nthat’s how it is.’ "<\/p>\n

The mayor said he doesn’t fear a suburban backlash. "No, I don’t think so," he said. "Food is food.<\/p>\n

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From the Breaking Business News Center: Taste of Chicago, the city’s annual chowfest in Grant Park, is returning to its original mission of promoting only the city’s restaurants. A handful of suburban-based vendors without restaurants in the city are being asked to exit this year, Megan McDonald, executive director of Chicago’s Office of Special Events, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}