City Plans To Haul Snow Away In Dump Trucks To Predetermined Sites, So As To Make Room On Roads
With all the snow building up and being pushed to the side of the roads, there are serious concerns as to where all this snow will go.
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With all the snow building up and being pushed to the side of the roads, there are serious concerns as to where all this snow will go.
The salt truck was backing up in a parking lot near 53rd and LaSalle streets around 8:30 p.m., when it ran over 57-year-old Yulelander Seals, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
We've told you about chronic trash dumping issues in a Far South Side community. Thanks to his dogged reporting, CBS 2's Tim McNicholas now has a better sense of what may be to blame.
The Department of Streets and Sanitation has dispatched 211 salt spreaders and snow plows for the evening commute with lake-effect snow falling in the Chicago area.
The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation has sent out snowplows and salt spreaders as snow moves into the Chicago area yet again Saturday afternoon.
The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation dispatched more than 280 spreaders late Monday for the winter storm that was sweeping into the Chicago area.
"It feels real good to say I don't live in a trash dump anymore," Charity Parker said.
From piles of trash to an abandoned car and construction debris, neighbors near 115th Street and Wentworth Avenue say they are sick of junk being dumped in their alley – and they blame the city for not doing enough to fix it.
Chicago has struggled for years to increase a miserable recycling rate, but a new report shows to make matters worse, city officials aren't doing enough to enforce existing rules for large apartment and condo buildings or businesses.
An audit released Thursday by the Chicago Office of Inspector General found that the city's Department of Streets and Sanitation is failing to meet its own goals for cutting weeds in a timely fashion.
The worst of the snow associated with the weekend winter storm was coming Saturday night.
The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation said it will begin clearing "dibs" objects used by residents to hold parking spaces during the winter months starting Monday.
The program will run from Saturday, Jan. 5 through Saturday, Jan. 19 at 25 locations across the city.
A handicap-accessible van owned by a woman suffering from Multiple Sclerosis was destroyed recently in a towing incident, but tonight CBS 2's Dave Savini reports her happy ending.
"The city to do that, with no regards to who that vehicle belonged to, is sickening. It's absolutely sickening," Lisandra Velez said.
Something stinks in Chicago. Thousands of residents are waiting for garbage carts, some since late last year.
Last week, city officials warned they would begin clearing away "dibs" markers beginning Monday.
The Waukegan Police Department issued a snow emergency Sunday morning until further notice.
People parking illegally face a minimum $150 towing fee, a $60 ticket and a storage fee of up to $20 a day.
Mayor Emanuel said he wanted to thank the men and women of the Department of Streets and Sanitation for handling the snowfall and making sure more than 200 trucks were on the city streets.
Many of the city's garbage carts have proven no match for hungry squirrels, raccoons, and rats in search of an easy meal.
The city has been fielding more complaints about rats, as its had to refrain from using dry ice, a method that suffocates and kills rodents.
The city of Chicago upgraded it's fleet of graffiti trucks with eight new vehicles and now uses citric acid to remove the drawings.
The Department of Streets and Sanitation has deployed 210 trucks to salt the city's main streets and Lake Shore Drive early Thursday as forecasters warn of freezing rain across the Chicago area.
After the city switched from ward-based garbage collection to a grid system in 2012, the Department of Streets and Sanitation kept looking for more potential inefficiencies.
