{"id":93999175,"date":"2011-10-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/trimming-the-fat-taste-of-chicago-festival-down-sized-for-2012\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T03:54:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:54:42","slug":"trimming-the-fat-taste-of-chicago-festival-down-sized-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/trimming-the-fat-taste-of-chicago-festival-down-sized-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Trimming the Fat: Taste of Chicago Festival Down-Sized for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taste of Chicago, The Windy City\u2019s annual foodie festival, will be truncated in 2012 as budget concerns and dipping attendance figures force organizers to re-think the yearly ode to eating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The festival will reportedly be cut down from a 10-day run to just five to seven days in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The focus will shift more toward food and away from outside entertainment as well. There will be no huge fireworks display as in years past either.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are also looking to draw more upscale eateries to participate in the 2012 event to highlight Chicago\u2019s rising status as a high-class dining destination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the city wants to do everything possible to keep the event free, though there has been talk of instituting a $10 admission fee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Chicago Sun Times <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cytosine\/744821603\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cytosine <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taste of Chicago, The Windy City\u2019s annual foodie festival, will be truncated in 2012 as budget concerns and dipping attendance figures force organizers to re-think the yearly ode to eating. &nbsp; The festival will reportedly be cut down from a 10-day run to just five to seven days in 2012. &nbsp; The focus will shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93999175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93999175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93999175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93999175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898327,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93999175\/revisions\/98898327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93999175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93999175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93999175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}