{"id":97205,"date":"2025-07-27T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97205\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:03:11","slug":"epic-con-attendees-gather-at-navy-pier-despite-events-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97205\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Con attendees gather at Navy Pier despite event&#8217;s cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Epic Con fans meetup despite event&#8217;s cancellation <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9eb94718f4e9d529685a1e22d4a856a5-0-1753632722092.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/epic-con-fans-meetup-despite-events-cancellation\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Epic Con fans meetup despite event&#8217;s cancellation<\/p>\n<p>          00:40<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/epic-cons-chicago-convention-abruptly-canceled-navy-pier\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Epic Con events scheduled to take place this weekend at Navy Pier<\/a>\u00a0were abruptly canceled earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>When the entertainment company hosting the event announced its cancellation, fans were left in the cold. Many of them already had flights and hotels that couldn&#8217;t be refunded.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the announcement, fans made the best of the situation by hosting a meet-up at Navy Pier on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>They gathered to talk about the show and even exchanged tokens related to Epic Con.<\/p>\n<p>The company posted a statement online just eight days before the show was supposed to take place, saying, &#8220;We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances outside of our control, we are canceling Epic Con Chicago &#8230; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/search\/author\/cbs-chicago-team\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Chicago  Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">The CBS Chicago team covers breaking news, weather, groundbreaking investigations, and dedicated community reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Epic Con fans meetup despite event&#8217;s cancellation Epic Con fans meetup despite event&#8217;s cancellation 00:40 Official Epic Con&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,5406],"class_list":{"0":"post-97205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-navy-pier"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114926282694291354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97205","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=97205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}