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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
500? It filled Federal Plaza but not totally. There was lots of room around the flamingo, and the crowd wasn't even close to the post office. The immigration marches a couple of years ago were MUCH, MUCH larger.
To put it another way, it didn't disrupt traffic in The Loop one bit.
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That's actually a really good description which helps me do exactly what I wanted: compare this to the Prop 8 protest I attended at the same location.
You know, the one that was put together in only 11 days with over 5,000 people who then took to the streets without a permit and disrupted rush hour traffic for a couple hours, because they cared so much about the issue.
How long have they been planning these tea parties? Something like 30 days? Seems to me "the people" have spoken. Granted it's Chicago, but they apparently care about gay marriage 10x more than these tea parties.