Chess tables to be removed in Wicker Park

Story at DNAinfo.com.

Quoting from Alisa Hauser's article:

New tables without chess boards will be installed in various spots around the park, rather than clustered as they are now — a grouping that had led some to complain they were a magnet for people drinking, gambling and dealing drugs.

Spread the tables around the park, fine.  But are chess boards the gateway to dealing crack and heroin?

"Wicker Park Chess Tables Causing a Stir, Could Get Ripped Out"

 

Story at DNAinfo.com. This is not the first time that chess tables have been targeted in the name of eliminating "undesirables."

Let's get rid of drug deals in the parks, but let's keep chess (and even dominoes) in the parks.

P.S.: Chess-friendly 1st Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno is on the case.