tasty stats

some delicious and not-so-delicious stats from this year's Taste of Chicago:

- 255,000 people in attendance the last day of the festival.
- 3.6 million total attendance over the 10 days
- 180,000 servings of ice cream
- 175,000 slices of pizza
- 118,000 slies of cheesecake
- 130,000 ears of corn
- 101,000 rib servings
- 45,000 turkey legs
- 8,000 pounds of cajun alligator
- 1 small child who went unclaimed for 8 days