Sweet v. City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ANDERSEN, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are authors of a guidebook entitled “Eat Your Art Out, Chicago” (the “Guidebook”), published in 1989, which lists restaurants and bars in the Chicago region that exhibit art for sale and sets forth their terms of exhibition. The sole criterion for listing in the Guidebook is the establishment’s active interest in showing art.

Since 1981, the defendant, City of Chicago (“City”), has conducted an annual food festival entitled “Taste of Chicago,” which brings together a large number of local dining establishments to represent the…