City digs itself into hole with resident weeks after water repair work

A Chatham resident, Worlee Glover, takes his problem involving a hole created by city workers to the Tribune. He's also behind the Facebook page, Concerned Citizens of Chatham and he not only posted those pictures there, but also forwarded those pictures to this blog a few weeks ago.

When city workers dug up the parkway in front of his South Side house in early July, Worlee Glover figured they'd come back to fill in the hole days later.

But as days turned into weeks, Glover became anxious. The workers had covered the hole in the 400 block of East 83rd Street with two-by-fours and boards, then placed blinking barriers on top.

Every morning Glover looked at the construction site, and every morning he became more upset. Not only was it unsightly -- weeds had started popping through the mounds of dirt, and garbage had started to collect around it -- but he was convinced it had become a safety issue.

An elementary school sits one block to the east, so kids will soon pass by the spot daily. Any of them could simply push the boards aside and fall in, Glover said.

"They're playing and not paying attention and pushing and shoving," he said. "That's my main concern."

Glover said he called 311 but nothing changed. So he took his concerns to the Internet, posting photos of the construction site on Facebook's Concerned Citizens of Chatham Web site.

Go read the whole thing. Ald. Lyle is quoted, she attributes the lack of attention to this hole with the financial problems the city is facing at this current time.