Letters: Christkindlmarket an engine of Chicago's holiday economy

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Thank you to the Tribune Editorial Board for calling out the city’s mishandling of the Christkindlmarket capacity limits ( “Chicago’s capacity limits for Christkindlmarket are a terrible idea. Here’s why this issue matters.,” Dec. 2). This is not a minor paperwork tweak but a warning sign about how Chicago is treating some of its most important cultural and economic assets.

What the city did to the vendors looks like a bait and switch. Organizers say they were told about the drastic new capacity cap only about 12 hours before the market opened. That gave vendors no realistic chance to adjust staffing, inventory or travel plans, even though many of them come from overseas and invest heavily to be here. If they had known earlier that their cus