4. You enter the stores one by one. They take your name and phone number.
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More on that please. Hoe many shops are doing that? Any idea what happens if you refuse? Tell them you're Herman Munster abd live on 1313 Mockingbird Lane?
There are security guards all over Water Tower, but in the little high end shops on Michigan Ave, such a Gucci and Louis Vuitton, Nike and others, you are greeted by Chicago Police. A shop staff takes your name and phone number and enters it into her lap top. You’re then allowed to browse the store.
On a Memorial Day Weekend I’d expect to see ore people, esp foreigners like Japanese, Koreans etc. Not so.
On Rush street, all the outdoors restaurants were full, like Tavern on Rush, Carmines etc.
I found myself calling a restaurant for a reservation and then told that they’re booked, but I can go to the website and reserve a table for another time.
I found that you were best off reserving a table for dining, by going to the website.
Like I said in my summary, limiting the number of people in a store, eg like the large Starbucks on Michigan Ave. was a good thing, because once you got in, there were fewer people with you.
I don’t see anything changing with the city until the politics change, and that won’t be happening for a long long time if ever.
I sense a thinly cloaked layer of anger among young people esp young blacks downtown. It’s like everyone is in their own world, and not cognizant of others around them. People seem more rude than polite.
I mentioned the shirtless guy dribbling a basketball in your face on the sidewalks of Michigan Ave. He looked like he was taunting, just hoping someone was going to interact with him. The beggars were not in abundance as I’ve seen before, and few people sleeping in the streets.
No mounted police.
One instance bothered me.
We waited about 20 minutes Monday around 745 am to get into the Starbuck’s Roastery, supposedly the largest Starbucks in the world, 5 floors.
We went straight to one of the quick lines to order coffee. At the head of the line were two college aged black kids who I thought were ordering coffee etc. After about 10 minutes, yes ten minutes, I realized that they were still talking with the cashier. I thought they had some huge order. No, just two coffees and roll of some sort.
IOWs, they were just oblivious to the rest of us behind them waiting to order. People, esp the young ones, seemed more rude, but maybe that’s me.