{"id":562,"date":"2009-10-21T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:40:43","slug":"chicago-venetian-night-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2009\/10\/21\/chicago-venetian-night-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Venetian Night R.I.P.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2009\/10\/daley-to-slash-money-for-venetian-night-tourism-promotion-in-budget-cuts.html\">Clout Street &#8211; Chicago Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facing the worst financial crisis of his 20-year tenure, Mayor Richard Daley plans to slash city funding for Venetian Night, a festival that his father began as mayor more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And that places the future of Chicago&#8217;s longest-running public party very much in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>City officials said today they can no longer afford the $100,000 for fireworks or the $200,000 to police crowds estimated at more than 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operational costs exceeded the sponsorship revenue,&#8221; said Cindy Gatziolis, spokeswoman for the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Special Events.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the Chicago Yachting Association, which organizes Venetian Night, said city officials had not informed them of the event&#8217;s demise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorechicago.org\/city\/en\/things_see_do\/event_landing\/special_events\/mose\/venetian_night.html\" target=_blank>Mayor&#8217;s Office of Special Events<\/a> (Venetian Night webpage, already deleted&#8230;):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Venetian Night is the longest running event that the City of Chicago produces, and was once a multiple day event that featured a beauty pageant and parade on State Street in addition to the lighted boat parade and fireworks show on the waterfront.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clout Street &#8211; Chicago Tribune: Facing the worst financial crisis of his 20-year tenure, Mayor Richard Daley plans to slash city funding for Venetian Night, a festival that his father began as mayor more than 50 years ago. And that places the future of Chicago&#8217;s longest-running public party very much in doubt. City officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,83,72,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago","category-chicago-yachting-association","category-law-politics-and-government","category-venetian-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}