Christmas Tax Money Returns

Someone must have gotten hold of Conehead during his latest stay at the sanitarium and mentioned he was missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue:

• City officials raised the capacity limit at Daley Plaza’s Christkindlmarket by 1,000 people after organizers, vendors and patrons complained about a last-minute crowd restriction on the beloved holiday market.

  The new capacity limit of 2,553 at the market, which opened Nov. 21, is still less than the 3,494 people allowed under the COVID-19 capacity rules set in 2021, when social distancing was in effect.

  Mark Tomkins, president and chief executive of the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, said the city informed his organization, which runs Christkindlmarket, of the decision Monday morning.

  “It’s progress. It will help, but it’s still rough for our vendors,” Tomkins said Monday, adding that the change “doesn’t move the needle a lot.”

This after the Civic Federation pointed out the TIF "surplus" was about to be drained to the benefit of the CTU and pretty much no one else (see post below this one).