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Capacity will be limited to 20 percent at Guaranteed Rate Field, meaning just 8,122 fans will be allowed in at once. Wrigley Field will similarly have a 20 percent capacity limit, meaning it will be able to seat just 8,274 fans per game.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Texas, 100% capacity, no masks……Road games if you want a normal experience with freedom
Lori is getting ready for lolla, the gay parade and the billiken parade. But the kids have to watch zoom.
A few years ago the Sox were drawing 8,000 a game so they know how to deal with the limitation.
Guess Chicagoans will travel to St Louis to watch their team like all the others that travel out of state to vacation – namely our Governor. IL opts to continually beat down small businesses and hotels that depend on this attendance. All for an illness with a 99.86% recovery and vaccine. Let’s see how stupid Illinois can be. We met the metrics and yet the sheep in this state keep waiting for the “great” Governor to deem us worthy to return to normal life. 30 percent: Reds, Indians, RoyalsOhio Gov. Mike DeWine approved 30 percent in Cincinnati and Cleveland, and… Read more »
Limiting attendance to 20% of capacity seems to be about the average for an MLB as of today. Michigan is ridiculously low.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2021/03/05/mlb-fans-2021-games-regular-season-covid-19/6836807002/
Kids can go everywhere but school