Question of the day
Wednesday, Jul 8, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Tribune…
Orland Park bars, restaurants and other businesses could reopen to full capacity before the end of the month under a plan approved by village trustees. […]
Orland Park officials believe they have authority to offer their own guidelines for a local restoration of business activity after a southern Illinois judge last week voided the governor’s executive orders that restrict the activities of residents or businesses. […]
Trustees Kathy Fenton and Dan Calandriello said they were still concerned about the village sponsoring the concerts and Taste of Orland, which draws in the neighborhood of 40,000 people.
Calandriello said it would potentially increase the risk of transmission of the virus, and that maintaining social distancing would be virtually impossible.
“People are on top of each other” at Taste, he said.
* The Question: Got any suggestions for rebranding the 2020 Taste of Orland?
- Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:45 am:
COVID Culinary Convention
- efudd - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:45 am:
“2020 Taste of Orland”
“Showing Arizona, Texas, and Florida how it’s done”
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:45 am:
The Taste of COVID Park.
- Chambanalyst - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:46 am:
Will free ventilator samples be available for those who would like to taste one?
- Almost the weekend - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:47 am:
Not a name, but the only way they should allow people into the taste is if they can spot Louisville on the map where this court ruling took place, that the Village of Orland thinks they have total authority.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:47 am:
Shark City Spectacular
- Ok - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:48 am:
Future Soylent Green
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:48 am:
Come for the Food
Stay in an ICU
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:50 am:
Please come to Orland, help us raise our IQ average.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:52 am:
Come to Orland, where serving illness is owning the libs.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:52 am:
The menu will be listing the following:
1. Double pneumonia with a side of ventilator in the ICU.
2. Full body aches and pains.
3. Extreme exhaustion.
4. Strokes and brain damage.
5. Blood clots and heart attacks.
6. Spontaneous diabetes.
7. Kidney failure.
8. Death.
- fyredog - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:52 am:
Taste? what taste?
- Anyone Remember - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:53 am:
Mayor Hamilton Homecoming Festival.
- Back to the Future - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:53 am:
“Come for the Food
Stay in an ICU.”
Ouch.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:54 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Culling the Herd, 2020
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:55 am:
Are we being trolled? Isn’t this really a campaign rally for tramp?
- JoanP - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:56 am:
They should borrow the University of Chicago slogan: Where Fun Goes to Die
- Fighter of Foo - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:56 am:
Taste of Orland- Our empty mall today, is your ICU tomorrow.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:57 am:
“As you know, Amity means friendship.”
Mayor Larry Vaughn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100X1R2fkKA
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:58 am:
Two bits says the ILGOP will be holding campaign rally during the zombie recruitment event.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 10:59 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Food Plated on a Petri Dish
- lake county democrat - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:02 am:
2020 Taste of Orland Park
Scream and Shout, because after the scarred lungs you won’t be able to ever again.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:03 am:
=== easy to criticize when…===
Me? No.
I’m celebrating lunacy where a fried elephant ear is more important than the doctors and nurses relegated to helping these Covidiots.
I’m embracing Covidiocy.
To the QOTD;
Taste of Orland Park; Celebrating Darwinism, 2020
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:07 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Eat Everything, Only Worry if You Lose the Sense of Smell
- Les Nessman - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:08 am:
Taste of Orland; Leave the gun take the COVID home with you.
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:10 am:
Taste of Orland - Where Reality is Optional
- Leigh John-Ella - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:11 am:
Followed soon after by the Sudden Loss of Taste Orland Park
- 1st Ward - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:12 am:
Hold it outside block off more streets further spacing between booths which can only be single vendor booths. No live music; hire a DJ. Significantly more entrances/exits which are wider in spacing. Need significantly more porta-potties (probably won’t be enough regardless). Lower capacity limits expand hours, have a day and night pass with intermission in-between to clear people out and re-sanitize. This would be a start but would lower the financial viability of the fest. I’m sure more would need to happen as well.
- Moe Berg - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:12 am:
Taste of Orland: Food Poisoning Will Be the Least of Your Worries
Taste of Orland: Better Than 95% Chance You Won’t Die
Taste of Orland: Dying for a Corndog
- Bourbon Street - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:12 am:
2020 Taste of Orland
“Celebrating the Coronavirus”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:14 am:
Taste of Orland Park; It’s So Fun, It’s Sick
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:16 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Masks Optional, Waivers Mandatory
- pc - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:16 am:
Deader Together
- McGoo - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:17 am:
Come for the Freedom Fries, Stay for the Ventilators!
- DuPage - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:18 am:
The taste of “do you feel lucky”.
The taste of Russian roulette without the gun.
- Captain Obvious - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:19 am:
Taste of Danger, Will Robinson
- Hamlet's Ghost - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:19 am:
Taste of Sweden
COVID without the economy
- Blue Dog Dem - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:19 am:
Taste of Orland Park.
Reservations recommended.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:21 am:
Taste of Orland Park; See Us in Two Weeks
- the Patriot - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:21 am:
Taste of Protest.
Protests are immune from the virus and the Governor’s intervention.
- northsider (the original) - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:21 am:
Orland– Midwest Amity, no ocean, so we used a virus instead of a shark!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:23 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Spreading Friendship Like a Virus.
- Moe Berg - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:25 am:
Taste of Orland: I’m Ready for My Inheritance, Grandma
Taste of Orland: Turning Healthcare Workers Into Heroes
Taste of Orland: A Celebration of Scientific Illiteracy
- pete4illinois - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:26 am:
Gives a whole new neaning to the expression”Dying to eat out.”
- Jake From Elwood - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:26 am:
“Taste of Goreland”
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:26 am:
Taste of Orland - Take Home More Than Just Memories
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:27 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Trust Us, It’s a Hot Spot
- Bruce (no not him) - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:30 am:
Taste Of Orland Park Eat Drink Cough
- Lynn S. - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:31 am:
@ Huh,
You forgot
9. Amputation of various body parts
(Folks are losing limbs because of Covid-19 blood clots in their extremities. Nick Cordero, the Broadway actor who recently passed on, had at least one amputation during his stay in the ICU.)
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:33 am:
Taste of Orland Park - reservations for your hospital bed are now being taken. For a small extra fee, you can reserve the all inclusive ICU bed featuring medically induced coma, IV pole, nasogastric tube, catheter, heart monitor, accessorized ventilator, and around the clock medical care from our
professionally trained nurses and doctors. Ambulance service is extra.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:34 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Let Us Be Your Infector
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:35 am:
Lynn S - I also forgot
10. Loss of taste and smell.
- DuPage Saint - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:35 am:
The Republican National Convention
- Boone's is Back - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:36 am:
“Come to the taste, you won’t be able to after”
- Last Bull Moose - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:39 am:
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
- Earnest - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:39 am:
2020 Republican National Convention
- Lynn S. - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:39 am:
Having lots of fun reading these.
Seriously, though, would this activity be covered under the village’s liability insurance policy? Given what we’ve learned so far, just seems to fall under the “too stupid to deserve coverage” part of the policy. Or is the village self-insured, and Orland residents just don’t care, they want to send every penny they earn to the village treasury?
If I was a good vendor or restaurant, I think I’d come up with, “I’d love to, but I’m so overbooked that month that it’s simply not feasible for me and my staff to participate”, when asked if I want to join this Covid-19 festival.
- Hard D - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:40 am:
I forgot to mention this Mayor Pekau was funded by Proft on a platform of double dipping and a pay raise of 100k for the old Mayor. Now this guy does both he ran against and Proft dosent say a word, WONDER what’s in it for PROFT?
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:41 am:
Taste of Orland Park; Food So Tempting, You’ll Tempt Fate For It
- Lynn S. - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:42 am:
*food vendor
Flippin’ predictive text
- Jocko - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:42 am:
Instead of guessing your weight or age, the carnies will be telling you how many months you have to live.
- Annonin' - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:44 am:
Dumbber Than Bolingbrook
- Papa2008 - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:44 am:
Ave’ Orland. Morituri te salutamus.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:50 am:
Taste of Orland Park - testing the theory of herd immunity. Anti-vaxxers wanted.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:53 am:
Taste of Orland Park; You Can’t Stop Us… From Infecting
- Back to the Future - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:00 pm:
You guys and gals are incredible.
This may be the best posting comments ever.
- JoanP - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:01 pm:
Taste of Orland Park: our Official Beverage is Diluted Bleach
- Frank talks - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:01 pm:
Come to Orland Park
COVID19- Tastes like Chicken and Freedom
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:02 pm:
Taste of Orland Park; Karen Recommended
- JoanP - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:02 pm:
Taste of Orland Park: Spread the word and the virus
- Wensicia - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:03 pm:
Taste of Orland Park: The Last Supper.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:04 pm:
“Official Beverage is Diluted Bleach”
Sponsored by Clorox.
- Candy Dogood - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:07 pm:
The Orland Park Cornucopia of COVID Comorbidities
The Orland Park COVID Party
Taste of Orland Park; Your best last meal
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:11 pm:
Taste of Orland Park - official dress code:
Shirt and shoes required.
Masks optional though notrecommended.
- Dotnonymous - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:20 pm:
Taste of Orland Park…Taste the victory while it’s hot.
- Chatham Resident - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:20 pm:
Taste of the Northeastern Bloc
- Frank talks - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:21 pm:
Taste of Orland Park-Headlined by Anthrax
We wanted the Cure but they aren’t touring right now
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:23 pm:
Taste of Orland Park; Our Way is Infectious
- Ares - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:25 pm:
Covidiocy Follies of 2020
- Telly - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:31 pm:
Taste of Orland — Kick-off rally for Mayor Keith Pekau’s campaign for governor (Sponsored by Dan Proft)
- Precinct Captain - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:32 pm:
Orland is really rolling the dice they don’t cause an outbreak
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:36 pm:
Gonna be really tough to top “Frank talks.”
- Rich Hill - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:39 pm:
“Taste of Orland: The Food Is To Die For!
- Chatham Resident - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:42 pm:
We Bought All the Toilet Paper
- Rudy’s teeth - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:45 pm:
Taste of Orland
First, visit the Living Will booth where representatives from Vrkovic, Laskovich and Galloway will offer advice and consultation (for a fee, of course).
Then, stop by the Last Rites tent where Extreme Unction services are available for a donation to the Archdiocese.
Credit cards accepted. Cash preferred.
Enjoy the taste. It may be your last.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:45 pm:
Taste of Orland Park - legal representation by Thomas DeVore. Chasing ambulances all over the place. My pet judge will rule in your favor as many times as needed.
- Dotnonymous - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:45 pm:
- Moe Berg - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 11:25 am:
Taste of Orland: I’m Ready for My Inheritance, Grandma
No dice…wait until Grandma and Gramps pay the medical bills plus funeral expenses…there goes the dough.
- alfredE - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:47 pm:
Taste of Orland: *What, me worry? palooza*
- Dotnonymous - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:50 pm:
Taste of Orland p[ark.. So good it’ll make you slap your relatives with COVID 19.
- Thomas Paine - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:51 pm:
2020 Taste of Zombies
- Chatham Resident - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 12:54 pm:
Located only 223 miles up Root 45 from Clay County
- Hard D - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 1:03 pm:
Telly 12:31pm. His hopes for being Governor will be down the drain when he gets defeated for Mayor by the very popular township supervisor Paul O’ Grady. That 150,000$ part time salary will stop him from being the Mayor again and the future Governor.
After going on with the taste of Orland he might do well if he gets into the funeral business.
- Froganon - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 1:24 pm:
Taste of Orland
The Infector Vector
- Dotnonymous - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 1:28 pm:
Taste of Orland Park…From our kitchen to your Hospital.
- 44th - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 1:59 pm:
2020 Darwin Festival
- Telly - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 2:01 pm:
- Hard D -
Agreed. He got elected by running Proft-produced cable ads against the previous mayor’s pension and pay boost, but he’s taken the 150k salary since assuming office. Orland Park is one of the most Trumpy towns in the Cook County burbs, so I’m guessing he hopes his Covid-denying enthralls the base and obscures his hypocrisy on the pay raise.
- OneMan - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 2:04 pm:
Taste of Orland, why not bring back something for the kids and grandma…
- OneMan - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 2:07 pm:
Taste of Orland, the hospital is just a short drive down 80 and up 355 now.
Taste of Orland, you might feel bad due to the food, you might feel bad because of COVID, meh…
Taste of Orland, because you miss the food court at the mall.
- Joe Bidenopolous - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 2:10 pm:
Taste of Orland: Just like being in Orlando!
- Hard D - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 2:12 pm:
- Telly- your spot on but his base has taken a big hit over numerous other issues he has had. Also the 4th of July fireworks show only had a few hundred people show according to the Dailey Southtown down from the 5-6000 that normally do. That indicates people are very very scared and that includes the Republicans in Orland Park.
If a Republican gets a one on one with him they split the Republican votes and most all other voting groups he loses. Unions, Dems, Females who he has very little support from along with other voting groups he’s turned off.
- Rabid - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 2:36 pm:
Taste Orlando’s 2020 hindsight
- orland Republican - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 2:51 pm:
Rumor has it Jim Dodge the former Republican Committeeman and present village trustee is running against Pekau because of the scenario Hard D talked about
- ajjacksson - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 3:45 pm:
I think we can carefully open up more quickly than we are. But this is not the way. This is just dumb.
- Lynn S. - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 3:50 pm:
Okay, I’ll bite…
ajjackson, 40 states now have increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases.
Care to share your ideas on how opening up can be down, without Illinois joining the growing list of failed “but at least we’re open (banned punctuation)” states?
- Pundent - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 4:00 pm:
=I think we can carefully open up more quickly than we are.=
Nobody has outsmarted the virus yet. We should continue to make decisions based on what the scientific and medical community advise. They won’t always be right but it sure beats guessing.
- benniefly2 - Wednesday, Jul 8, 20 @ 4:38 pm:
Pekau isn’t earning his $150k/year if he can’t get Gilead pay to make this “The Taste of Orland Park: Sponsored by Remdesivir.”