And Speaking of Maintenance

In light of real reporting, we get this:

• A first-ever analysis of city pothole data by the Chicago Sun-Times found that Uptown’s North Side neighbor, Edgewater, was also chock full of street cavities. However, other communities packed with potholes were scattered all over the city.

Wow, how many millions were wasted on this? And the media treats it like real news in the midst of how many Federal Task Force investigations? It does reveal a few tidbits like this though:

• But curiously enough, some of the slowest average response times in patching potholes were recorded in clout-heavy neighborhoods like Norwood Park, (15 days) Edison Park (12 days), Clearing (11 days) and Forest Glen (10 days).

  These bungalow belt communities are home to thousands of police officers, firefighters, city officials — and probably a few pothole patchers.

  So why so sluggish in responding?

Um, because the mayor knows he can take these votes for granted? Because these areas have shown time and again that they'll either elect republicans or actual competent alternative non Machine candidates if presented? What other reason could there be?