Hundreds of school funding protestors are expected to converge outside Wrigley Field today during the Cubs playoff, but they won't be ringing the stadium as originally planned.Since the White Sox are also in the playoffs, expect a protest near The Cell. Also the protesters will be there around game time, but they should leave before the game ends.
Instead, protestors wearing bright orange t-shirts will be confined to a cordoned-off area in the middle of Addison, near the park entrance, State Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) said Tuesday.
The group's new position is "a compromise'' with city officials for agreeing not to surround the perimeter of the stadium with 6,000 protestors, Meeks said.
Fewer protestors will now be needed, but Meeks said he still expects more than the 1,400 who gathered at New Trier Township High Sept. 2 to protest the inequities in Illinois' school funding system.
Some New Trier students will even join Wednesday's protest, Meeks said.
Meeks said he still expects cameras from the Goodyear blimp to capture a sea of school protestors in orange t-shirts for the national television audience.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Meeks changes plans on Wrigleyville protest
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