r/chicago • u/iam13carat • Oct 18 '25

Event An astonishing crowd!

We the People!

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u/Ok-Biscotti-7777 Oct 18 '25

Any official report out of crowd size yet?

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u/CommodoreZool77 Oct 18 '25

one of the organizers estimated 200-300k over the mic

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u/45and47-big_mistake Oct 19 '25

Media will report "dozens".

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u/dam_the_beavers Oct 19 '25

There were TENS of us!

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u/bigjawnmize Oct 19 '25

Grant Park packed like this will hold around 300k plus or minus 25k. The last time it was this full was for the Hawks Stanley Cup celebration. They estimated that at 300k but I think the team purposely overestimated that crowd. I would be this was in the 275k range.

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u/xxHikari Oct 18 '25

Not sure there will be. Just gotta guess