Re:SET Chicago, Michelada Fest draw complaints as large concerts kick off in neighborhood parks
Meanwhile, festival organizers say they’ve worked with the community by offering free tickets, creating space for local vendors and hosting local job fairs to staff the events. The festivals will spur spending and highlight the communities, they say.
“The Park District for many years has been focused on revenue generation first without thinking about who’s bearing the burden,” Irizarry said. “And then they tell the community that if they don’t have these concerts, they’ll have less money for programming as a way to put pressure on people.”In Pilsen, gates were erected around Harrison Park on Monday, five days before the start of Michelada Fest, a celebration of Mexican food and culture, the park’s first major music festival of the summer.
According to organizers, the fence around the park had to be erected days in advance to ensure proper and safe production for the event where they expect at least 5,000 attendees a day. But even though it was gated, the doors to enter the park, including the softball field, basketball court, playground and field house were still open to the public, said Michele Lemons, a spokesperson for the Park District.
Nieto and Torres, who also run My House Music festival at Harrison Park in August, were both born and raised in Pilsen. They say that they began the festivals to highlight and celebrate their culture, and to invest in the neighborhood and its people. As ticket prices have increased to match production costs, the number of free tickets to area residents have also increased, they said.General admission tickets for Michelada Fest are $89 each day, plus taxes and fees. The weekend ticket is $149.
The president of the Harrison Advisory Council, Tina Iturralde said the process to approve the festivals is flawed by not surveying the residents that live in the surrounding areas of parks where mega festivals take place. “The tree roots are very fragile, so driving trucks over them is very damaging to the few tress that they do have,” said Elsa Anderson, a professor in an environmental science program teaching urban ecology at Northwestern, who joined Galeno to deliver the letter.Community organizer Warren Williams said he didn’t hear about Re:SET in Belmont Cragin’s Riis Park until he got an advertisement for tickets in February.“We started talking about it with other neighbors, and no one had known about it.
The process to permit large events should involve more residents, possibly through mandatory efforts to publicize events under consideration with flyers and public forums, he said. If residents wanted the festival, he’d be for it, he added. “This is what they do. They put out bad information, they want nothing to happen, they shut everything down, they want no opportunity,” said Herrera, who owns the Festival Cubano that has previously occurred in Riis Park and also works as the community engagement director for the annual, 50,000-attendee Riot Fest in North Lawndale.
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