Taste of Chicago tells vendors from outside Chicago that they are no longer welcome

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Excellent comment - what bothers me about Taste is how it is often the same vendors over and over again. Yes - several small vendors manage to sneak in each year, but on the whole, the lineup rarely changes.

I think the organizers are wrong to think that the really close suburbs are not "Chicago enough". Take Eli's for example - they are so far from Chicago that most people in the city would never bother drive all the way there. How an Eli's (which is pretty much in Harwood Heights) is Chicago enough, but a fudge store from Riverwoods is not, is beyond me - but like a lot of things in Chicago, I'm sure politics play a major role. Eli's said that Chicago restaurants equal Chicago jobs - but I'd love to know just how many of the Eli's employees at their plant actually live in the burbs.

If they really want focus on Chicago food, they need a 100% different lineup each year, with the best the city has to offer.

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