Looptopia: Only The Strong Survive

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Looptopia: Only The Strong Survive

May 12, 2007 by nbc5

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)

As I headed out onto the street, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. There were a smattering of people all over the place. Columbia College also had an event tonight called Manifest, separate from Looptopia, and several of those students appeared to migrate north to join these festivities.

I did make it to the Chicago Cultural Center — where I’m blogging from now — and they’ve begun to let people back inside, although you have to take a round-about route to get here. On the first floor there’s several tables set up where people are playing chess. On the third floor, I took Janelle’s advice and checked out the sitar performance. Very soothing. I think I’ll hang out here for awhile.

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on May 12, 2007 at 4:12 pm | Reply Julio

Chicago needs to do this again… without liquor. I have to say I enjoyed what I could like the Macy’s “club” like atmosphere. What bothered me the most is that some people took this as a joke and a time to act like fools. Besides that, the city did try to prove that it can handle an event as such and I really think it should continue next year, just without the passing of alcohol because it bummed out my evening with people being incoherent and causing mayhem. The events taken place started fairly earlier (5pm-ish til 10pm). The fact of having a all night extravaganza is that you continue to have events but not slow down and this may have caused some people to get bored and cause mayhem in the streets. I did enjoy myself at the events I could get in (long long lines) but overall Chicago was meant to have more overnight events like this, just needs to be planned a little more carefully.