Chicago cops can moonlight as McCormick Place security, council says
Posted June 22, 2016 11:00 pm
The Chicago City Council agreed Wednesday to let moonlighting, uniformed Chicago Police officers provide security at McCormick Place conventions to ease fears of a terrorist attack similar to those in Orlando, Paris and Brussels.
Since 1996, the city and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority have had an agreement in place that allows a pool of roughly 135 off-duty police officers to patrol Navy Pier. Most of them have been in uniform. Occasionally, they work in civilian clothes.
They are "classified as McPier" employees, but they are not authorized to wear their uniforms at McCormick Place.
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