Federal court says Chicago’s Millennium Park speech rules ‘chilled’ First Amendment-protected religious speech, petition passing rights – Cook County Record

A federal judge has issued an injunction barring the city of Chicago from enforcing speech restrictions inside Millennium Park. Four student members of Wheaton College’s Chicago Evangelism Team sued the city on Sept. 28 after they were told to stop passing out religious literature and evangelizing in the park.

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