{"id":662698,"date":"2026-03-17T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/662698\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:33:12","slug":"mayor-brandon-johnson-says-he-has-never-had-a-borg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/662698\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Brandon Johnson says he has never had a BORG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday commended the safety of Chicago\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day festivities, but declined to endorse the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/16\/chicago-st-patricks-day-borg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proliferation of BORGs<\/a> in citywide revelries this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A BORG, or \u201cblackout rage gallon,\u201d is an alcoholic concoction typically contained in a plastic gallon jug. And in the nation\u2019s third-largest city, home to one of the most rambunctious celebrations of the holiday, young partygoers were eager to swagger between bars and parties with the drinks, usually dyed kelly green.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for his official position on the BORG, Johnson first demurred and asked whether \u201cthe green substance\u201d was non-alcoholic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I\u2019ve never had a BORG,\u201d the mayor \u2014 who himself is a teetotaler \u2014 told reporters. \u201cLook, we want people to be safe and to be responsible. We did have a great celebration. You know, my official position on any alcohol consumption is that people should do it responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yRWcQTIqKX\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/14\/photos-chicago-river-dyed-green-st-patricks-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photos: Chicago River dyed green for St. Patrick\u2019s Day<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Videos posted to TikTok this weekend showed Chicago police dumping out the gallons and making what online content creators christened as \u201cBORG morgues\u201d or \u201cBORG jails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One video with nearly a million likes showed filled BORGs piled in the back of a garbage truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chicago Police Department enforces all laws, including laws related to drinking in the public way and public intoxication,\u201d the department said in a statement to the Tribune Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson added that no individuals were charged with disorderly conduct on Saturday in the 1st District \u2014 which includes the Loop, where the annual downtown parade and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/14\/photos-chicago-river-dyed-green-st-patricks-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dyeing of the Chicago River<\/a> took place \u2014 and one minor was arrested for obstructing an officer and possessing alcohol underage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday commended the safety of Chicago\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day festivities, but declined to endorse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":662699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[280429,20174,280433,960,280432,280431,5386,1818,268280,280430],"class_list":{"0":"post-662698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-borg","9":"tag-brandon-johnson","10":"tag-brandon-johnson-borg","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-borg","13":"tag-chicago-st-patricks-day","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-st-patricks-day","17":"tag-what-is-a-borg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116246191099866778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}