A Chicago marketing company has launched an effort to try to get neighbors not to put chairs in street parking spaces when they shovel them out after snow storms.
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago marketing company has launched an effort to try to get neighbors not to put chairs in street parking spaces when they shovel them out after snow storms.
Blocking out shoveled street parking spaces, or "dibs," is a Chicago tradition. On Wednesday, the marketing firm Proximity Chicago launched a community effort called Chair Free Chicago. The company calls it a movement of citizens who think public spaces should remain public.They call putting out the chairs a polarizing tradition.
The effort includes a website at ChairFreeChicago.org. The website lets those who want to participate print out signs and fliers to post on chairs set out in streets. There’s also a Chair Free Chicago page on Facebook.
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