Four Evangelical Christian students from Wheaton College outside Chicago were prevented from engaging in open air evangelizing and dissemination of religious literature at Millennium Park, a beloved public park and major tourist attraction for the city of Chicago, by the park’s security team. They filed suit against the city in September 2019, and last week a judge ruled in their favor, stating that they had a First Amendment right to evangelize.
Matt Swart, Jeremy Chong, Gabriel Emerson, and Caeden Hood sued the city of Chicago, arguing the city’s restrictions violated their First Amendment rights to evangelize and disseminate religious literature, which they had done every Friday.
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