RedLoon Defunded
- City Hall is ending its financial support of the Great Chicago Fire Festival, and it's unclear whether the Redmoon Theater-produced event will be held next year.
The city kicked in $100,000 a year for three years for the festival, but Special Events Commissioner Michelle Boone told aldermen on Monday that the funding is not being renewed.
The event started out as a public embarrassment in 2014 when model houses failed to ignite while floating in the Chicago River during the festival's climax, earning the nickname "the fiasco on the river" from one alderman. But the festival moved to dry land on Northerly Island this year, and Boone deemed it "great."
Yeah, right. Tens of thousands of dollars in damages to the nearby Chicago Yacht Club kind of put a damper on memorializing 300 dead people with another conflagration. And the $600 million in tax increases kind of put a damper on things. Morons.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
11 Comments:
I know some folks from Ferguson MO and Baltimore MD that are experienced in setting urban conflagrations. You should hire them. I heard they work really cheap, as in "all they can loot."
Well, Taxpayers just lost 2 years worth of $100.000.00 from the City and $75,000.00 from the Park District to set wooden boxes on ablaze in the lake. Citizens pleaded, editorials were written and still Rahm approved the stupid Redmoon idea of sponsoring the 'Great Cgo Fire Festival'. Finally...its out...the Fire has been put out. Now, to dump another Lake damaging idea...that of the ugly blob proposed by egomaniac George Lucas. The darn thing looks like a nuclear furnace or an out of water octopus. It lacks elegance..has no proven staying power for the century..'Star Wars' and 'Norman Rockwell' hardly gel. The 'thing' doesn't ring, 'Chicago'...It rings 'Hollywood'. Rather leave it a parking lot than make a mistake that can not be taken back...the Lakefront belongs to the people not to Lucas.
They will find another disaster to celebrate.
Forget the $100K, that's peanuts!!
What about the $7.M OK'd by the 'connected' people at the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority for the renovation and buildup of scoreboards at US Cell?
As Rick Telander wrote, "in a convoluted way, you, the taxpayer, will be paying for this brilliant monstrosity."
The Sox don't need anymore gadgets to try and fill the stands. The Sox need some hitters who can actually hit and a manager who doesn't act like he's a wax figure at Madame Tussauds.
Wondering if some comments on insignificant blog telling the truth about celebrating mass deaths was part of the not throwing more taxpayers money away? Who thinks of ridiculous things like celebrating a fire? What's next use northerly island for a Jim jones type drink the kool aid jones town style? Maybe use the lake big ship put people on to get the experience with a band, blow a hole in it celebrate titanic? Stupidity at its worst!
They Should Burn the Daley Family like Witches,Now that I would attend.
A lot of people don't realize that there was a huge New Age build-up to this all summer long, 50,000 kids being indoctrinated into "having their worldview changed" and "making their identity flexible" and "being a member of many different cultures at once," by "facilitators" working in our city parks and so forth, using something called "GRIT," the "Group Ritual Imagining Tool." That's about enough of that s__t.
No more other people's money? The kayaks paddle disconsolately off into the sunset...
...and good riddance.
I shall now celebrate my inflexible identity and ancient, singular culture with a few choruses of one of our hunting songs from 1724.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg6t4tHOWhA
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Well, Taxpayers just lost 2 years worth of $100.000.00 from the City and $75,000.00 from the Park District to set wooden boxes on ablaze in the lake. Citizens pleaded, editorials were written and still Rahm approved the stupid Redmoon idea of sponsoring the 'Great Cgo Fire Festival'. Finally...its out...the Fire has been put out. Now, to dump another Lake damaging idea...that of the ugly blob proposed by egomaniac George Lucas. The darn thing looks like a nuclear furnace or an out of water octopus. It lacks elegance..has no proven staying power for the century..'Star Wars' and 'Norman Rockwell' hardly gel. The 'thing' doesn't ring, 'Chicago'...It rings 'Hollywood'. Rather leave it a parking lot than make a mistake that can not be taken back...the Lakefront belongs to the people not to Lucas.
10/06/2015 01:19:00 AM
Agreed, agreed, agreed. Every word. Agreed.
Ridiculous! Just another fleecing of taxpayers money. Then you cry Chicago is broke! Bunch of lies, how much are the elected stealing in massive theft? Will Trump when in office unleash the full power of the Feds to clean up this massive corruption? Let's hope and pray a real man like Trump does it!
Let's try a WW2 reenactment, we could have planes flying over the lake front dropping bombs on northerly island ridiculous yes just like this! Silly,silly,silly right Richie Daley?
"The city kicked in $100,000 a year for three years for the festival, but Special Events Commissioner Michelle Boone told aldermen on Monday that the funding is not being renewed."
"The event started out as a public embarrassment in 2014..."
Am I missing something here. She said $100,000 a year for three years. If this started in 2014 wouldn't that make it two years?
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