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More And More Chicago Bars, Restaurants, And Other Businesses Are Requiring COVID-19 Vaccination For Entry
CBS Chicago ^ | 8/15/2021 | Marissa Parra

Posted on 08/25/2021 6:55:53 PM PDT by simpson96

CHICAGO (CBS) — Nearly 54 percent of Chicagoans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to city data, while more than 70 percent of adults in the city have received their first shot.

Now, as CBS 2’s Marissa Parra reported Sunday, a growing number of city businesses are starting to require proof of vaccination before entry.(snip)

Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St.; Roscoe’s Tavern, 3356 N. Halsted St., and D.S. Tequila, 3352 N. Halsted St., all require visitors to get vaxxed to enjoy the perks. Sidetrack and Roscoe’s will also accept a negative COVID-19 test within the past 72 hours, but D.S. Tequila – among many other venues – will accept proof of vaccination only.

At both locations of Uncommon Ground, at 3800 N. Clark St. in Lakeview and 1401 W. Devon Ave. in Edgewater, the options are to present proof of vaccination or to wear a mask.

“Show us a vaccine card, a good picture of it on your phone, or the CLEAR app,” said Uncommon Ground owner Michael Cameron. “If you are vaccinated, come on in – eat, drink, dine, enjoy yourself If you’re not – or most people forget to bring their card and they tell you that they’re vaccinated – but we require that they wear a mask.”

For Cameron, the signs were there that it was time to put up some signs with some rules.

“You could kind of see it coming – you see like New York doing it and then San Francisco – and then I’m like, all right, Chicago seems to get, you know, in the middle of that maybe a day or two later. Everybody’s kind of talking to each other about what’s going to happen,” Cameron said. “So we decided, OK, let’s just roll it out.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


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Lower your customer base to less than 54% of the population that could patronize your establishment.

Brilliant business strategy. /sarc

Maybe Cameron is a trust fund baby, and doesn't need the money anyway. He can afford to virtue signal.

1 posted on 08/25/2021 6:55:53 PM PDT by simpson96
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I guess speakeasies will make a comeback in Chicago.

Someone should dust off Al and Frank’s playbooks.


2 posted on 08/25/2021 6:57:46 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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Chicago already has a major gang problem.

Creating a need for a new black market will just make it a lot worse.

The black market is the real market when the leftists over-reach.


3 posted on 08/25/2021 7:02:06 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: simpson96

Get the shot, or get shot?


4 posted on 08/25/2021 7:02:16 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: wally_bert

our kids at the office already photoshopped the vaxx cards. No biggie. We’re a Hollywood post production company and we can re-create anything..


5 posted on 08/25/2021 7:02:31 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: simpson96

Easy solution. Just drink at home. No worrying about DUI. And when the bars start losing money, they’ll start to petition Mayor Beetlejuice to allow customers in without being vaccinated.


6 posted on 08/25/2021 7:03:51 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: simpson96

How closely are these businesses examining the vax card? Asking for a friend.


7 posted on 08/25/2021 7:08:12 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: simpson96

They want to lose business, let the dumasses lose!


8 posted on 08/25/2021 7:09:41 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Get the shot, or get shot?

LOL. A question that had to be asked.

9 posted on 08/25/2021 7:11:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: simpson96

It won’t bother me much personally at this point…. I quit going to bars years ago but this can’t be a good business model.

The fear is strong…and deep…and fake.


10 posted on 08/25/2021 7:11:57 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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AOC is probably thinking “I was ahead of my time. At my bar in NY I would have told our bouncers to give those Deplorable anti-vax guys a brutal going over. Too late.”


11 posted on 08/25/2021 7:13:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Clowny McClownfaces...


12 posted on 08/25/2021 7:14:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: simpson96

Would it help to wear one of those funny T shirts “I’ve Had My Two Shots” with 2 alcoholic drink glasses?

Maybe not. No sense of humor around these days.


13 posted on 08/25/2021 7:15:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Lower your customer base to less than 54% of the population that could patronize your establishment.

Maybe they just don't like black people.
14 posted on 08/25/2021 7:18:35 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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“More And More Chicago Bars, Restaurants, And Other Businesses Are Requiring COVID-19 Vaccination For Entry”

Nature abhors a vacuum. People will find other alternatives.


15 posted on 08/25/2021 7:20:28 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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Looks to me like Chicago businesses have found a legal way to discriminate against people of color.


16 posted on 08/25/2021 7:22:42 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: max americana

I had to resize mine to fit in my wallet, and it looks like a perfect reproduction. Photoshopping would be so easy.


17 posted on 08/25/2021 7:26:06 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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More And More Chicago Bars, Restaurants, And Other Businesses Are requiring COVID-19 Vaccination For Entry Going to be Closing Soon, Forever.
18 posted on 08/25/2021 7:26:07 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: Salvey

The damn things aren’t photo ID cards with holograms. At least not yet.

So I imagine if your friend has some semi-legible chicken scratch written on it, then s/he would be good to go. It’ll help if it’s printed on properly sized cardstock as well.

I think they’ll glimpse at it, wave your friend in and move on.


19 posted on 08/25/2021 7:28:52 PM PDT by Mr Fuji
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

That’s why I laugh at Freepers who dont have a creative side. I already used my “vaxx card” a few times, even at a restaurant here in L.A. a few nights back. They just look at it and in you go LOL. They forgot something: We are supposed to show a vaxx card right? I didnt hear nor read anything stating it had to be real (snicker)


20 posted on 08/25/2021 7:32:14 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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