The Chicago City Club is hosting a panel forum on whether Chicago should make prostitution legal.
The forum, titled “Decriminalizing Adult Consensual Sex Work: Ensuring Safety, Rights, and Dignity,” is scheduled for noon on April 25 at Maggiano’s Banquets, 111 W. Grand Ave. in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.
Panel members are Brian C. Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, Reyna Ortiz, Chair of the Sex Worker Advisory Group, and Illinois State Senator Celina Villanueva (D-Little Village).
“In light of increasing violence against sex workers, Equality Illinois and the Sex Worker Advisory Group (SWAG) have united to launch a campaign to keep adult consensual sex workers safe by decriminalizing sex work. Two-thirds of (cross dressers) killed in the past decade were sex workers and three-quarters of all sex workers will experience violence in their careers,” says the Chicago City Club announcement.
