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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2010 The Associated Press.
