It was a standard hotel conference room scene — slices of fresh fruit
and muffins laid out next to coffee urns and bottles of water chilling
on ice as the attendees straggled in, industry friends hugging hello and
quickly catching up on personal lives.
The west suburban conference, though, was hardly typical, and before
it got started a hotel manager, standing near TV cameras there to cover
the event, even asked an organizer to leave his hotel chain's name out
of remarks if possible.
The 100 or so attendees were dancers, doormen, valets and bartenders from six Chicago-area
strip clubs. And they were there to meet with federal agents from the
Department of Homeland Security about how they might offer help with a
problem that has increasingly become a target of law enforcement
investigations: sex trafficking.
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