Do ‘free speech zones’ promote safety in Downers Grove parks? Or are they ‘completely un-American?’ – WBEZ (Chicago)

Laura Hois was surprised last July when she saw a 15-by-15-foot “free speech zone” marked in a corner of Fishel Park in Downers Grove. She had come to the park to promote her candidacy for the DuPage County Board, but a Park District employee told her that she couldn’t mingle and talk politics with attendees, she said. She could only do so in the “free speech zone.”