Post-blizzard Absurdity!

After my walk along the lake yesterday, I turned west at Greenleaf Avenue to head back up Sheridan Road. When I reached the corner, this was what I saw:

Plow damage to the Loyola Park Fieldhouse planter

In the clean-up after the Groundhog Day blizzard, this walk was closed to foot traffic, as up to nine-foot high piles of snow had been dumped along most of this two-block western boundary of Loyola Park.

Though I'm not certain when this plow came through to clear the walk, I am dismayed at the destruction!

Bench #1

Bench #2

Bench #3

Bench #4

Bench #5

Toward the back of this snow pile is a metal trash container, which was attached to the sidewalk a half-block away. The mangled black shape in the foreground is the heavy-duty plastic liner.

An example of what the benches used to look like (on an interior park path)

These benches have been in place since, at least, the late 1950s. Seats and backs were replaced by Chicago Park District as necessary.

To have these five benches destroyed in one fell swoop is ABSURD!

Was the plow driver drunk, or on drugs?

I also wonder...what did the plow blade look like after this total debacle?

STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!

Drink, Damn ye', til yer Drunk!

...cuz I needs the money!

Daley’s plan has ’em drinking up along the lake
Even parks advocates not opposed to doubling licenses at venues along shore

Mayor Richard Daley wants people to drink more along the lakefront as a way to gin up money for the Chicago Park District and avoid raising taxes.

That relaxed, party-on vibe spread Wednesday from City Hall to lakefront aldermen and even parks advocacy groups who don't oppose Daley's plan to double the number of liquor licenses to 25 along Lake Michigan.

"It seems counterintuitive, I know, for a park organization to back this kind of a plan, but we feel it can really improve the experience for people in certain areas of the parks," said Bob O'Neill (scared jerk-off), president of the Grant Park Conservancy, who endorsed the liquor license expansion as a way to draw people to the lakefront.

Read it all. It is sooo disgusting.

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Isn't this just so nice?

Is Richie taking care of Maggie in her extreme time of need ? NO.

He's out 'n' about, just tryin' ta make so'more bucks...so's he kin keep da place in Mich, ya know where.

Chicago, under the Dick'em Daley 'Bubble of Deceit'

I'm tellin' ya, Richie, if youse was a good Catlick boy, youse would get down on your knees 'n' pray, yeah, right now. Pray to be forgiven for all you've done...to hurt the City of Chicago!

An' pray you don't end up in some field in da 'burbs!

But, I, and most of Chicago know--YOU ain't been no good Catlick boy for the past 60 years!

To be quite frank, I think da Mare might become a wee bit happier if he gave away ALL his money!

Someone want to ask him to try it?

Perhaps Ald. Joe Moore, or Ald. Ed Burke?