New Real World Events have been announced for Pokémon GO!

[Crossroads Bulletin]

Several new real world events have been announced for Pokémon GO!

Niantic has just announced several new real-life events happening around the world. As part of the Pokémon GO Fest, there will be challenges in Grant Park to capture various Pokémon during specific Challenge Windows on July 22nd: 11-11:30, 12-12:30 and 3:30 local time in Chicago. This unlocks rewards for players around the World. The list is as follows: Fire-type Pokémon unlock candy bonuses, Water-type Pokémon unlock XP bonuses, Grass-type Pokémon unlock stardust bonuses, Electric-type Pokémon unlocks egg distance bonuses, Rock-type Pokémon unlock buddy distance bonuses, and Steel-type Pokémon unlock encounter rate bonuses. If worldwide hits the Gold reward, then Phase 2’s Mystery Challenge opens in Grant Park from 6 pm to 7 pm and if that succeeds, then there will be a Global Reward challenge window of July 23rd and July 24th.
In addition to that, a Safari Zone event has been announced for Europe. Here, various Pokémon which are not accessible in Europe will be available for capture alongside powerful Raid Bosses. These events are held at the following locations and dates:
August 5, 2017
Fisketorvet—Copenhagen, Denmark
Centrum Cerny Most—Prague, Czech Republic
August 12, 2017
Mall of Scandinavia—Stockholm, Sweden
Stadshart Amstelveen—Amstelveen, The Netherlands
September 16, 2017
CentrO—Oberhausen, Germany
Les Quatre Temps—Paris, France
La Maquinista—Barcelona, Spain
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[Coru]

This is really exciting. My friends and I have been speculating and the global event could, we think, possibly be the release of Mew Two. They now have the raid system up and this is the perfect opportunity. Just organised an impromptu trip to Chester with my girlfriend and our uni friend purely because a Pokemon go event is happening there.
Our theory is this:
Phase 1:
The event I am going to go to, as UK timezone is ahead of America is a prequel event to Chicago's Grant Park event. Chester will temporarily have 120 pokestops throughout the city. That is more than London and it is much smaller. That is perhaps a poke stop for every 20 steps, more than in any city in the world apparently. ALL will also have lures. Imaging the amount of Pokemon appearing. Phase one needs to globally achieve a certain percentage of people maxing out certain medals. Chester is the perfect place for this and also Chicago will be too.
Phase 2:
This is Chicago's job. They need to complete this to unlock the last reward for the world. Three gyms will appear with raids on. One for each team. This makes it seem like the raids will be the legendary birds. If the three raids are all successful that means all people attending the Chicago event will get one of the legendary birds.
Phase 3:
Phase 3, if Phase 2 was successful will see all gyms become raids for two days. The Pokemon being Mew/Mewtwo. This gives everyone in the world the chance to get them and possibly if they succeed, the raid will return but with the other so people can get both.

Of course this is a theory but it seems to fit perfectly. The coincidence of the Chicago and Chester events happening at the same time and also that raid are now a thing, the legendaries can have a legitimate way of being caught. What other time than the anniversary would they do a mass legendary release?