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Chicago's Inter-Agency Model to Regulate Nightlife

Rosa Escareño

Chicago's Entertainment Venue Team has served as a template for cities throughout the world uniting police, fire, alcohol regulatory and health departments for compliance and education in hospitality environments. In this interview, she shares the evolution of this unique interagency team working in collaboration with hospitality businesses to define fair and efficient guidelines and policy reform to assist dining and entertainment businesses operate during COVID-19.

Rosa Escareño

Commissioner

Chicago Business Affairs and Consumer Protection

Rosa Escareño brings 20 years of experience leading large scale agency reform, operations management, communications strategy and public/government engagement.