Your tax dollars at work

[reality_hammer]

Is your food licensed?

One mom prepares hundreds of pounds of frozen fruit. The Chicago Department of Public Health says she doesn't have the correct license to make it into candy and sell it. Can she still give it to her son?

Not in Chicago.

Of course not! Didn't you know that giving food away to friends and family requires a completely

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Bleh ...

[btripp]

It is insane living here.

I was involved in a conference about a decade ago which "needed" to be sold out by the time it was going on, because we were running it at a gallery, and if we weren't "selling tickets" the day of, it would be run as a "private event" and not require a whole raft of inspections. Unfortunately, early ticket sales were slow, and we'd been clued in by friends in the police department that if we went ahead and ran the conference with day-of-event tickets, we were going to be swamped with health department, building department, fire department, and various other inspectors looking to shut us down.

We ended up canceling the day before and were barely catching our various speakers before they got on planes to come to Chicago, and assorted organizers were paying people back for years afterward for the cost of un-used plane tickets, etc. It was a nightmare.

Between the City/County bureaucracy, and the damned unions (there are a lot of people almost celebrating the recent "doomsday scenario" with the CTA here, as

Re: Bleh ...

[btripp]

That's a classic case of why McCormick Place is losing conventions! When I was in P.R., we did a lot of conference work down there during shows, and we'd hear the horror stories of these companies who were having to pay for the Union "workers" to sit around a "supervise" the construction of these big exhibits which needed to be actually assembled by the companies that had designed them.

Also, you can't do anything down there ... if a sign falls off of a lectern, you could be totally shut down if you pick it up and push it back on the velcro instead of calling the show office and having a "Decorator" come down to fix it. Oh, and if your booth waste basket gets full, you're likely to get fined if anybody catches you doing anything about it.

When I had my publishing company, we used to show at Book Expo, and I'd put together big duffle bags that would hold two boxes, that I could bring in on my back, since you were allowed to bring in stuff you could "hand carry", but if you needed to use a cart, it had to go through the loading dock

[alanesq]

I blame George Bush!

[myndcryme]

All hail the Motherland, comrade.

- V -

[madamealexis]

That is messed the hell up!

The Chicago Way strikes again.

[shadowfox24]

I guess she didn't give generously when the "neighborhood association" rep stopped by.

So is this 'Hope' or 'Change'?