Cottage work a legal hassle // Industry wants to free its people

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 31, 1988| Author: P. J. Bednarski | Copyright information

Though Mayor Sawyer declared last Friday and Saturday "Work at Home Days in Chicago," lots of people at the National Association for the Cottage Industry convention meeting here spent the weekend trying to figure out how to do it - legally.

Conference organizers festooned their meeting room at the Chicago Hilton and Towers with balloons reading "Free the Cottage Workers." That's because in Chicago, and many other cities, outdated zoning laws ostensibly prevent many kinds of home bu...

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