Jan 16 2012
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“ The group also hopes to control the presence of chartered buses, which in the parade’s final years became rolling bacchanals for booze-addled revelers from bars in Lincoln Park and college campuses throughout the Chicago region. At the least, Connelly said, those buses would be corralled in designated parking lots. “If we’re allowed, we could have a couple bus drop-off points with a police presence, where they will be searched coming off the buses,” Connelly said. “If someone’s coming off a bus intoxicated, they could detain them or not allow them to go on to the parade.” “We certainly don’t want them dumping their problems on our neighborhood,” he said.
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City expects to issue permit for return of South Side Irish Parade - redeyechicago.com
If you throw a parade and make allowances for chartered buses to park in your neighborhood then you’re inviting them into your neighborhood.
(Also: “their problems?”)
