Morgue Improvements
New high capacity refrigeration units - just in time for summer:
- The man charged with fixing a broken Cook County medical examiner’s office 18 months ago, declared his agency “risen from the ashes,” as he led a tour of a gleaming new morgue cooler Thursday.
“These are exciting times for the Cook County medical examiner’s office,” said the office chief, Dr. Stephen Cina. “We will continue to look to the future, while we never forget the lessons of the past.”
Some two years after the Chicago Sun-Times first detailed appalling conditions at the morgue on Chicago’s West Side — including bodies stacked on top of each other beneath blue tarps — Cina said his office has received “provisional accreditation” from the National Association of Medical Examiners.
“It’s evidence that key standards and measures are being followed,” said Cina’s boss, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. “Perhaps more importantly, it should give assurance to those whose loved ones pass through the medical examiner’s office that the deceased are treated with dignity, care and respect.”
Everything is just about ready to go - now let's fill that thing!
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
48 Comments:
Even when they're dead they get more use out of our tax dollars.
Very reassuring to know that the medical examiner is top notch. I feel better about Chicago already.
It isn't just the bricks and mortar and the hardware.
It is also the staffing, the training and the attitude.
To attract the best help instead of political hacks this would be a good place to get a lot of it's staff from an intern program from the various colleges of mortuary services and forensic sciences.
Everything is just about ready to go - now let's fill that thing!
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Ha !!!! Good One!
No problem... keep voting demo-crat!
Chalkie......As soon as I am back from vacation I will do my best..
Chalkie....let's get going!!!!!!!
All that was required in the first place was that Prickwinker (sic) let go of her purse and then spend over two million for the upgrade.
Had not the media sensationalized it, it would have been status quo.
If only the CPD Pension crisis worked that way.
We can still smell the decay from the LaGrou refrigerator trailers plunked down to handle the overflow from the '95 heatwave...
"Ya! We're gonna destroy them after the M.E. is done with then!"
Suuurre ya are!
EEE-YUCK!
"Hey pard... Let's park over by THERE!"
Sgt. Dee-Dee came by swinging her mighty make believe dick to supervise the unruly coppers. >Pffft!<
Somebody in the back of one of the trailers must've complained to her... "I gave you guys a DIRECT ORDER to park over by THERE!"
"Uhhhh... That's down wind sarge..."
>Dee-Dee has a melt-down<
(Hmm... Good title for a CPD kiddie book)
5 minutes of yelling and profanity later,(While watching raptly waiting for her to rupture something. If she did, she would have still been behind the wheel, just down wind over by THERE...) she finally drove by where SHE wanted the detailed cars to sit...
>I'm gonna spar your asses six ways to Sunday for disobeying MY order!<
>Smell of DEATH up in HEAH y'all!<
PEE-YEWW! XP
She turned and drove off but not before shooting us her famous "I was weaned on a sour pickle" look...
It was worth it because she never came by to bother anybody again...
Gad... She wasn't the only prize winner in 012 at the time. Damn if they weren't spilling out the fucking windows the place was so full of special needs white shirt misfits.
"WAHH! The 30 Sector is SCARY!"
What's wrong? Your car won't let you go south of the Ike?
Fun was counting the fresh bullet holes in the car at the end of your tour...
Not fun was being in the damn thing while it was being ventilated.
POW! >PIING!<
Dat 1231 was a mofo...
1232 too!
The interesting coppers you could navigate around. The supervisors hunted you down when they sensed you were trying to avoid them to make YOUR life and job easier.
Hmmm... Funny stuff with the copper who took home a brick from the old morgue and put it in his basement... Only to have the family pooch go crazy crying pissing and shitting all over the basement.
>AROOO! That brick is HAUNTED!<
"SHADDAP DA NOISE YA FUCKIN' MUTT!"
Then the copper FINALLY caught a whiff of >Smell of DEATH up in HEAH y'all!<
He tossed the brick...
Can't remember if he brought the pup a nice beef bone as an apology :^)
Oh what fun...
Dignity and respect. ....gimme a fuckin break.
There is only so much you can do when overwhelmed with casualties.
Especially casualties that no one wants to claim.
I'm sorry, pay for.
I think that he meant to say, "Risen from the ASSES.".
Fill it indeed. This is a tall order since crime is down and homicides are at a record lower, right? Oh THAT'S RIGHT fill it with Death Investigations! Win Win
I think the new ccw permits can help fill that baby up with honor roll students and rappers n such
Dr. Cina is a class act along with his Deputy Dr. Arunkumar. They along with other pathologists work hand in hand with police and is a refreshing and professional government entity. Other city, county and state agencies should take notice.
Having someone give the powers that be a good solid kick in the ass is what is needed in this corrupt place known as Cook County/Shitcago, Ill. If the media would stop catering to these machine loyal vermin they might start doing their jobs.
Good, just in time for the summer mayhem and increased body count.
Cook county, where life is cheap, we stack em' deep.
"Let's fill that thing"? Be careful what you wish for.
OT - Husband is retired and has not rec'd his 1099R yet. Anyone else have this problem? I thought by law they were to be mailed by 1/31.
Thank you
Awww...you shouldn't have!!!
- Love,
Chalkie
A "world class city" would never have had this issue to begin with. This is a prime example of misplaced priorities and incompetent administration. Here you have a basic service for a major metropolitan area that was neglected to the point of disgust, and it is something that should have never been allowed to happen in the first place. The city government works in the exact same fashion, only it is basic services like police stations, equipment, and personnel that are neglected and centuries behind in technology and design. But then again when the mayor's priorities are parks, bike lanes, stadiums, and any other pet project that can be contracted to one of his supporters, this is the result.
Make it simple. After you've been notified if you don't pick up dead relative or friend within 30 days their remains will be donated to a medical school or other research institution.
Somehow "exciting times" and "morgue" just don't seem to fit together. Maybe there's a joke in there somewhere.
They could save a lot of nonsense if they simply installed a crematorium. It is easier to deal with a box of ashes than rooms of decomposing flesh no one wants.
Looks like Chalkie will be getting some assistance from Prickwinkle when the weather warms.
"Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle [said] “Perhaps more importantly, it should give assurance to those whose loved ones pass through the medical examiner’s office that the deceased are treated with dignity, care and respect...”
...until we burn them.
I think Preckwinkle actually likes that awful place. She's gotten more face time for the cameras around there than any other pol I've ever seen.
That horrible little John Daley was in there too, standing in front and making sure to get on TV. Too bad he didn't inadvertently get locked in after everyone else left.
"Tragic oversight..."
"Funny stuff with the copper who took home a brick from the old morgue and put it in his basement..."
2/14/2014 01:26:00 AM
Good thing he didn't slip someone a couple cases a beer to drop off about 800 of them in the driveway, gonna build me a nice barbecue pit...
"These are exciting times for the Cook County medical examiner’s office,..."
Is such a thing even possible?
"Exciting," I mean.
It's good to go out in style.
It sounds like a whole lot of hard earned taxpayer dollars has been wasted on a bunch of dead guys.
Yippeee
Looks like the "cooling center" issue for the west side is taken care of.
Yo,Chalkie ....
You've been been doing push-ups in Miami Beach for 3 months?
Hear your back in town next Thursday!
I think you guys got this all wrong. Those are bunks for booth camp at CC Jail.
Tony-Toni, what ever the CC President is, told Dart to use them in the summer to keep the Booter' Kool in the summer. Very special.
No need to be like that Demon, Sheriff Joe from AZ.
"Funny stuff with the copper who took home a brick from the old morgue and put it in his basement."
2/14/2014 01:26:00 AM
"Good thing he didn't slip someone a couple cases a beer to drop off about 800 of them in the driveway,gonna build me a nice barbeque pit..."
2/14/2014 11:13:00 AM
Whoo!
Bricks with 100 years of death in them for the BBQ pit?
Can't fuck with that one, brother!
Yeah... That's why you gotta be careful where your "recycled" materials for your DIY projects come from.
Example: The nitwits who dug up about 50 feet of paving stones from an alley near Fifth & Sacramento.
They had the trunk and back seat of a piece of shit k-car convertible full of the fucking things...
Never you mind that that was over a ton of bricks.
Never you mind that these fools jumped in the front seat to get away from the Police...
>SKREEEEEEE!<
"Hey! Ya fuckin' dummy! Yer front wheels gotta be touchin' the pavement for the car to go somewhere!
O_o? o_O?
"Aw shit! Uhh... If we put 'em back can you give us a play Office?"
>Zzzt-Click!<
EVERYBODY stuck their head in lock-up to point and laugh at those busters.
Oh what fun...
Hey, I worked the wagon for years. I filled and lugged many a body bag. I've seen exactly how the "...deceased are treated with dignity, care and respect...”
I'd rather be buried at sea or left in the woods than to go there. It is a true House of Horrors. And that is on a regular day.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT - Husband is retired and has not rec'd his 1099R yet. Anyone else have this problem? I thought by law they were to be mailed by 1/31.
Thank you
2/14/2014 08:36:00 AM
The City of Chicago doesn't pay attention to any stinkin' damn law.
Yo! At least they can all chill!
We need the same improvements at the FOP. Get the stinking bodies out.
My 1099 and others who had retired went to the unit of our last assignment. The office staff is so busy that they did not have time to call any of the retired people or to have the forms forwarded to them. I would not even have known about it if some of the people that I used to work with had not called me to let me know that they had seen a form with my name on it in the pile with the rest of the forms.
I can't imagine what the first warm night is going to be like this year.
>>>Anonymous said...
It sounds like a whole lot of hard earned taxpayer dollars has been wasted on a bunch of dead guys.
2/14/2014 01:10:00 PM<<<<
And why not? Every one of them is a registered Democratic voter.
If you think that conditions at the morgue were appalling, you should have seen the old morgue on Polk St. You could smell it 3 blocks away and after they tore it down, you could smell it in the ground after a rain....
My 1099 and others who had retired went to the unit of our last assignment. The office staff is so busy that they did not have time to call any of the retired people or to have the forms forwarded to them. I would not even have known about it if some of the people that I used to work with had not called me to let me know that they had seen a form with my name on it in the pile with the rest of the forms.
2/15/2014 03:39:00 AM
Interesting, thank you for the info. How screwed up is that.
"..My 1099 and others who had retired went to the unit of our last assignment..."
what a joke- fckng dept cant even correctly distribute mandatory information to retired coppers- HQ (finance, human resources etc) doesn't care about the employees and cant be bothered to even do their job
It's now so good down there that people are just dying to get in.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT - Husband is retired and has not rec'd his 1099R yet. Anyone else have this problem? I thought by law they were to be mailed by 1/31.
Thank you
They aren't mailed out. Po's have to pick them up at their units. Have him check with his last unit. My guess it is still there.
Oh what fun...
2/14/2014 01:26:00 AM
Good one! Cracked me up...
I say they need the extra space for the almost here Civilian Concealed Carry!
"The ringing phone announces the beginning of another day at Leak & Sons Funeral Home. When things get busy, it can ring 300 times an hour..."
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130803/ISSUE01/308039974/a-business-of-life-and-death
Give em 30 days to claim the body!! Then compost it and send the compost to Maggie Park!!!
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