Hey Greg?
Add this to the list of "How to save money" that you're going to propose to Rahm and the aldercreatures:
- NORTHERLY ISLAND — That didn't take long.
It's been less than a year since its heralded opening, but a popular section of Northerly Island's new park is already closed for repairs after high winds and crashing waves eroded parts of the bike path and scattered debris.
Opened to the public in September, the $9.5 million project turned the former home of Meigs Field into a sprawling natural habitat with a milelong bike path, man-made lagoon, native plantings and tons of wildlife.
Eight months after it opened, the area between the lagoon and walking path has eroded, forcing the Chicago Park District to close the eastern-most section of the park while repairs and a solution to the problem are contemplated.
So once again, nearly $10 million thrown away on a piss-poor construction project that will cost how many millions more to repair lest someone fall into a hole and cost the city millions more in a lawsuit settlement? We're sure the FOP will be bringing this up along with all the other suggestions we've been making.
Labels: FOP, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
30 Comments:
This is "New" News?
Shiiiit, that path has been closed since November of last year. This shit aint NEW, people are just starting to figure it out.
What happens when globull warming kicks in?
Won't the rising waters flood the entire project?
F-ing FOP is silent.
Dean and crew are silent.
Oh, wait! I forgot he was on Chicago Tonight.
Does anyone watch that crap show?
Ponce and Marin? Never gonna watch those two hacks.
Hey Dean, how about you get out in front of more mainstream media?
Start taking out Yahoo, Google ads. Defending the rank and file in media outlets where actual everyday people in Chicago might see you. Stop being a dinosaur. Hire some young media/internet savvy kids that know whats up.
I've got a great revenue generating idea. Turn the island into an airport.
Likely the same contractors from Rahm's back pocket that were awarded the construction of the police stations that are crumbling as well.
Built by sub standard contracters, always junk in Chicago.
Our pension fund sure could've used that $10 million.
Could've used all the tens of millions pissed away on the seldom used bike lanes too.
Rahm is an asshole and a horseshit mayor.
Damn weather. Global warming. Waves. Ruining all of the great ideas. Next thing is we won't have or need any domed stadiums ....oh wait. We don't. Let's rip up Meigs Field. Let's tear down Mc Cormick Place. Build bike lanes. Build a casino here. Build a sports facility for a college basketball team. Throw more money at stupid and unnecessary stuff.
Does anyone think before they do ANY projects here? I have lived in Chicago area a long time. We always have 4 seasons. It gets very hot. Very cold. Windy at times. Rain and snow occur. The lake has high waves. Water levels at lakes go up and down. Been happening since the beginning of time. This isn't a climate that is good for outdoor activities year around.
The City and County have a nasty habit of "preparing" for things that don't end up happening, but cost the taxpayers a lot of money. Anyone notice that all the courthouses were retrofitted to accomodate the courthouse parking lots that employees were going to have to pay to use? Before anything was agreed upon or passed, workers were out laying concrete and installing gates. THEN after the work was done, someone realized that the prisoner bus wouldn't fit and that had to be fixed. THEN the employee parking never went through. THEN the concrete guys had to come back out to break up the new concrete and lay it again without the gates.
You mean to tell me that the concrete and gates couldn't have waited until AFTER the parking issue was settled? Think about it. How many contracts are given out because MAYBE something will happen. Or maybe rumors are started to justify giving work to connected contractors. How many people walked by those concrete guys every day and never noticed that what they were doing was stupid, avoidable and didn't make sense except to make someone rich and keep their guys working? What happened to investigative reporting. This shit happens right out in the open and nobody notices that it doesn't make sense or care?
I've got a great revenue generating idea. Turn the island into an airport.
5/08/2016 06:45:00 AM
I know, right?
Anonymous said...
1. F-ing FOP is silent.
Dean and crew are silent.
Oh, wait! I forgot he was on Chicago Tonight.
Does anyone watch that crap show?
Ponce and Marin? Never gonna watch those two hacks.
Hey Dean, how about you get out in front of more mainstream media?
Start taking out Yahoo, Google ads. Defending the rank and file in media outlets where actual everyday people in Chicago might see you. Stop being a dinosaur. Hire some young media/internet savvy kids that know whats up.
5/08/2016 05:20:00 AM
??????????
FOP President Dean Angelo Responds to Task Force Recommendations on Chicago Tonight
In Report, Task Force Contends Police Union A Major Obstacle To Change on CBS
Chicago Union: Task Force Had 'Built-in Bias' on Chicago Tribune
Police union: Low morale will crater following ‘biased’ report on the Suntimes
FOP wants CTU to condemn rally comments to ‘F— the police’ on the Suntimes
FOP President won’t say how long union will employ VanDyke on WLSam
Police Union Defends Hiring Officer Charged In Laquan McDonald’s Death on CBS
Can a cop get a fair trial in McDonald case? on Chicago Tribune
FOP President: Investigatory Stop Reports are 'cumbersome' on Fox News
Fraternal Order of Police president welcomes Emanuel’s reforms on WGN
Decline In Chicago Police Stops Signal Bigger Problem Than More Paperwork on DNA info
Chicago Police slowed by new reporting system, not publicity, superintendent says on Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Police Street Stops Decrease Dramatically Amid Sinking Morale on DNA Info
Dean Angelo On The State Of The Chicago Police on WLSAM
Chicago Police Shootings Prompt Calls for more Tasers on CBS
FOP President Dean Angelo Says Firing Gun The “Last Thing” Officers Want To Do on CBS
Chicago union head: Officers don't want to be next headline on Yahoo
FOP President Dean Angelo on Chicago Police Culture, Investigation on Chicago Tonight
Every Day, Hundreds of Officers Report Dashcam Problems on DNA info
Department of Justice Meets with Chicago Police Union on Chicago Tonight
Aldermen Grill Police, Union Officials In Hearing on
Could you stop the bullshit campaigning till after thanksgiving?
Remember never ever trust anyone who is from the shitty-wide team.
Go to the link and look at the pictures. What a wreck.
How come Meigs Field held up under the lake storms, but this thing can't?
Our family used to have a fine, quiet time on weekends cycling the parks and the south lakefront fifty years ago. Nothing there ever seemed inadequate to us. Sun, trees, walks, benches, water fountains, flower gardens, birds, squirrels...everything seemed to work OK.
It started to become dangerous in 1964, due to a sudden invasion and a rising crime rate. People we knew felt obliged to take a snubby, just to sit for a while. An elderly man we knew had a sharp rock bounced off the back of his head while peacefully fishing in the Jackson Park Lagoon behind the Museum. We brought home a beautiful big turtle that had gotten smashed up back there too, tried to patch him up some. By 1968, you didn't want to go much anymore.
Within living memory...the things that have been taken from us.
Oh no, you just gave away Rahm's fail-safe last minute ace in the hole location for the Lucas Museum.
Let the Disney World Midwest construction begin.
Thousands of jobs and another ecomonic engine for the lakefront Entertainment District.
What would be more fitting for the underserved who can't afford to travel to California or Florida?
Meanwhile 50 part-time aldermen are scheming for the few remaining eminent domain property grabs in the surrounding areas.
Here's an idea, since we can't strike start using retirees and family members to picket and close down construction sights that are Rahms pet projects.
Turn Northerly Island into a giant Thunderdome! Then then bus in all the rival gang factions if for a massive all out war like "Running Man. Spike TV could televise it and the money could go to pay off debt. What a crock of shit!!! Rahm wouild ust spend the money on some other waste of money.
Are they still holding concerts on the island? Probably all swamp land now.
What happened to Greg along with his Italian sausage making union rep? Either greg is brain dead or really scared to speak out and tell the truth! Now greg at 1 time your were all in to help,now how much are you paid (remember we pay dues we pay your salary), for writing a blurb in the newsletter? It's OK to speak out greg thank you!
Didn't some guys from the marine unit make some suggestions to prevent this?
Oh yeah, I think they were ignored. After all, they are only stupid policemen.
OT Don't take painkillers. Tough it out.
Runt Daley's vision, the gift that keeps on giving...
Lowest bidders, minority contractors, cost overages, all friends of the machine.
MMMMMMM....Italian Sausage.....Keesing Bandit, don't YOU like Italian?
You mean to tell me that the concrete and gates couldn't have waited until AFTER the parking issue was settled? Think about it. How many contracts are given out because MAYBE something will happen. Or maybe rumors are started to justify giving work to connected contractors. How many people walked by those concrete guys every day and never noticed that what they were doing was stupid, avoidable and didn't make sense except to make someone rich and keep their guys working? What happened to investigative reporting. This shit happens right out in the open and nobody notices that it doesn't make sense or care?
5/08/2016 09:59:00 AM
Oh, like my block being repaved after twenty years of begging for it. And a year later, the gas company comes through and 'trenches' it, creating lumps, bumps and patching. And later the same year, the water dept comes in and relocates the hydrant about 13 feet (yes, thirteen feet) and tears up the street and curbs in the process? THAT kind of foresight and planning? Well, it sure keeps the asphalt companies and concrete folks in business, now doesn't it?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Damn weather. Global warming. Waves. Ruining all of the great ideas. Next thing is we won't have or need any domed stadiums ....oh wait. We don't. Let's rip up Meigs Field. Let's tear down Mc Cormick Place. Build bike lanes. Build a casino here. Build a sports facility for a college basketball team. Throw more money at stupid and unnecessary stuff.
Does anyone think before they do ANY projects here? I have lived in Chicago area a long time. We always have 4 seasons. It gets very hot. Very cold. Windy at times. Rain and snow occur. The lake has high waves. Water levels at lakes go up and down. Been happening since the beginning of time. This isn't a climate that is good for outdoor activities year around.
5/08/2016 09:27:00 AM
How would Emanuel know that? He's not a Chicagoan.
You mean to tell me that the concrete and gates couldn't have waited until AFTER the parking issue was settled? Think about it. How many contracts are given out because MAYBE something will happen. Or maybe rumors are started to justify giving work to connected contractors. How many people walked by those concrete guys every day and never noticed that what they were doing was stupid, avoidable and didn't make sense except to make someone rich and keep their guys working? What happened to investigative reporting. This shit happens right out in the open and nobody notices that it doesn't make sense or care?
5/08/2016 09:59:00 AM
Oh, like my block being repaved after twenty years of begging for it. And a year later, the gas company comes through and 'trenches' it, creating lumps, bumps and patching. And later the same year, the water dept comes in and relocates the hydrant about 13 feet (yes, thirteen feet) and tears up the street and curbs in the process? THAT kind of foresight and planning? Well, it sure keeps the asphalt companies and concrete folks in business, now doesn't it?
5/08/2016 08:14:00 PM
Yeah. But who the hell are they? Is it the same contractor?
I m glad Daley Jr took out the airport for big shots at Meg's Field
I ride up the lakefront path from gun sprayed Hyde Park.
Don t really understand why it takes $10 million to let the area go back to nature.
Let s all go back to nature.
What happened to Greg along with his Italian sausage making union rep? Either greg is brain dead or really scared to speak out and tell the truth! Now greg at 1 time your were all in to help,now how much are you paid (remember we pay dues we pay your salary), for writing a blurb in the newsletter? It's OK to speak out greg thank you!
Greg Bella was being sued by FOP because $250,000 was paid out to a lawyer/friend. $250,000 that wasn't suppose to be paid. $250,000 that was paid to a lawyer for not doing anything. Dean made this lawsuit disappear quietly. Dean talks about prior administrations lawsuits, what he doesn't tell you is Greg Bella was involved in three of them. Now Dean is paying Greg to work inside because the crew he brought up there has no idea what they are doing. Greg won't buck Dean, he owes him big time.
They should have left it alone.After it was torn up, it was fine. I rode my bicycle out there often. I thought it was the best kept secret it Chicago. Nice and Quiet, not a lot of people out there. Now they put up a wall to block the lake. Why would you put up a wall to block the view of the lake ? I am serious, what's wrong with these people ?
Anonymous said...
What happened to Greg along with his Italian sausage making union rep? Either greg is brain dead or really scared to speak out and tell the truth! Now greg at 1 time your were all in to help,now how much are you paid (remember we pay dues we pay your salary), for writing a blurb in the newsletter? It's OK to speak out greg thank you!
Greg Bella was being sued by FOP because $250,000 was paid out to a lawyer/friend. $250,000 that wasn't suppose to be paid. $250,000 that was paid to a lawyer for not doing anything. Dean made this lawsuit disappear quietly. Dean talks about prior administrations lawsuits, what he doesn't tell you is Greg Bella was involved in three of them. Now Dean is paying Greg to work inside because the crew he brought up there has no idea what they are doing. Greg won't buck Dean, he owes him big time.
5/09/2016 03:06:00 PM
Those lawsuits all deal with misconduct during Donahue's tenure and the offender was in three of the was Dougherty's lawyer who is referred as "he who can not be named"
Greg Bella was being sued by FOP because $250,000 was paid out to a lawyer/friend. $250,000 that wasn't suppose to be paid. $250,000 that was paid to a lawyer for not doing anything. Dean made this lawsuit disappear quietly. Dean talks about prior administrations lawsuits, what he doesn't tell you is Greg Bella was involved in three of them. Now Dean is paying Greg to work inside because the crew he brought up there has no idea what they are doing. Greg won't buck Dean, he owes him big time.
Actually, your misinformed. Bella was named in all three. The lawyer won the suit against him,
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