C Drew - Street Artist Adventures

You can not get maps of the areas where vendors are prohibited from selling at City Hall or online anywhere else. You would think the City of Chicago would provided vendors with maps of the “prohibited areas” but they do not! This works well for the police who are called by store owners because they can just claim anything. Who can read the municipal code and know what areas are prohibited and what areas are not prohibited areas? I could not without several days of study. Now you can see outlined in black where peddlers are banned from. There are eleven maps. I will need to confirm a few of the boundaries. For example - where is “Depot Street?” I could not find it on any map. It is not listed in the telephone book list of city streets. It is on mapquest.com as a street in Chicago. The City will not tell you under what conditions they will deny a person a peddlers license. Legally, there is no doubt, that this license is a prior restraint on speech. This is an illegal law which we need to fight if we intend to respect our full speech rights.
You can read the Peddlers License Municipal Code at:

http://www.c-drew.com/blog/free-speech-artists-movement/peddlers-license-municipal-code.html

View the maps at:

http://www.c-drew.com/blog/free-speech-artists-movement/chicago-art-prohibited-areas-list.html

Naturally, the Peddlers License Municipal Code is also listed in our information links on the right column of this blog.