No Fireworks?

Again?

• With the Fourth of July falling on a Friday, there will once again be no fireworks show downtown to mark the holiday.

  The city has confirmed that there will be no fireworks display in Chicago this year. Navy Pier will still hold its twice-a-week fireworks display on Wednesday, July 2, at 9 p.m. and Saturday, July 5, at 10 p.m.

  Madeline Long, director of communication for the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, told WGN News last year that “as has been the case for several years, the City does not host fireworks for the July 4th holiday.”

Not sure how many years in a row this is, but we remember working for the 3rd of July and it was an amazing shit show. 

 Every. Single. Time.

And we can't imagine the Department being able to handle anything like it nowadays. It would be broken windows, mass looting, multiple OC and Taser deployments, fights on every corner....you know, like it is all summer anyway.

And no arrests, just endless lawsuits until the next one.

Besides, the firework displays in the hood are almost better these days.