Body Snatchers Contract Up?
Rumor time:
- Pretty soon, Chicago will be phasing out its body-removal contract with Allied Services and switching to contracting with a specific funeral home. Is nepotism afoot? Being Chicago, I wouldn't be surprised.
Allied was always a scam operation. It used to take hours for them to show up until it was pointed out that keeping cops off the streets for four hours and sometime more was not the best use of manpower. That was when the 45 minute rule (75?) was instituted.
And before that, it was discovered that Allied was charging the City over $800 per removal. Comparable contracts in other cities were under $300.....and in a pinch, a wagon crew could do it for out-of-grade pay from D1 to D3, payable for the entire tour, but amounting to under $100.
And we're old enough to have met and worked with some wagon guys who were investigated (and cleared) of steering bodies to connected funeral homes for $50 per stiff.
Are we about to return to the bad old days of certain establishments getting bodies for a "fee" with associated kickbacks to Conehead's reelection campaign?
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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Ship-Show (sic).
It's the Chicago way...
Looks like this is the new $4M+ contract to a funeral home.
https://webapps1.chicago.gov/vcsearch/city/contracts/294288…
Off topic but lets talk about the worst aldermen. I vote Matt OShea. 19th ward has the worst public parks in the city, no field houses, disgusting bathrooms and grass that never gets cut. Now we have to deal with every day at Mt Greenwood and Beverly there are park bbqs filled with scumbags smoking weed and drinking right in front of the little kids. To top it all off, a male black was arrested last Friday at 6:00 PM with a 40 caliber semiautomatic Glock just 30 feet from the Beverly Parks playground with tons of kids at 6:00 PM. Oh he also had a sack of weed on him.
Old democratic trick, they sign them up for mail in ballots for the next 20yrs.
Watch the doc The Mortician for answers.
I'm confident there will be no shortage of bodies. Quantity pricing?!
then you wonder why a stiff found on the northwest side ended up at Leeks funeral home on the southside,,,,, they'll say it was for dei
Both of my uncles were wagon men. Boy do they have stories. They told me about the summer heat wave of 1995. How it was so hot it literally felt like you were in an oven. The heat was unbearable and deadly.
Slightly off topic, but still on the subject of contracts, could you find out through your sources whether all the companies with City contracts actually reduced their fees by the requested 3%. If they didn’t, I would assume their contracts won’t be renewed. Yet again, MSM overlooks this and fails to do any real investigative reporting.
Chicago can fuck up a one vehicle funeral.
Wagon guys cleared? About 25 of them were criminally charged with misdemeanors and pled guilty. They got to stay on the job.
Off topic but speaking of which of cars being downed on scenes waiting for snatchers , how about we address manpower . Put the green pajama wearing buzzcuts in a squad and deploy them to a district that’s short . They shouldn’t be hanging out bbq in the garage of Homan SQ all night and lifting weights . CST is basically tac you can get rid of those two yr wonders who do nothing but step in shit and leave it to the districts to fix and handle .
Nothing worse than bagging up nasty maggot stinker pie. Noxema rubbed up under the nose helped but if you get a popper it won't help.
Any odds on A.R. Leak getting a contract for DOA's
One place in Albany Park (forget the name) used to give $100.
the democRATic alderpersons do not look at them as "scumbags" but consider them future voters
I think that most got suspension time from 30 to 60 days.
OT, Watching the news, CNN, Fox, News Network, all three spoke of possible security issues in, New York City, LA, DC, and a few other large cities. Not a single network mentioned Chicago.
True ironic from news network which is based in Chicago. Point being, as far as the US goes Chicago isn’t even the radar.
Found a guy that couldn’t make the cut.
Charged with failure to report a tip or gratuity, a misdemeanor
Just let em lie along side the rest of the garbage
Growing up they were called the meat wagon.
Don't forget the cut some Sgts got.
Matt doesn’t care about the Alderman job anymore. He’s got himself a new gig now. Just saw the commercial on TV with Matt from Beverly as the spokesperson for OSF 55+ Carestation in Evergreen Park.
Also in some full page ads in the Beverly Review. Got start small if you want to become a Mike Madigan. F
Vicks or Mentholatum.
Can we expect wagon derbies just like tow-truck derbies?
The wagon man scandal broke because the funeral home at Buena and Sheridan doubled the charge and billed the family for "Police services".
That C note you got was a delivery charge. It came in extremely handy about five days before payday, when you were broke and thirsty. Sometimes wagon guys would try to beat each other out to get the job for the delivery fee. Unless it was a stinker. Many of our local drinking establishments also were grateful for the delivery fee. REMEMBER, WATCH OUT FOR THE FEDS...
and at least one suicide
I remember the heat wave of 95 very well . As a relief wagon man I had 3 ‘ house calls ‘ on one 2nd w shift in 010 District
I once had a body bust a bit at the seams and got some death juice on my pants. We continued on to the morgue and after that went to Pompeii over on Taylor Street for a nice meal. Not a problem. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Apparently, they have an exagerated level of confidence in my stamina.
Chalkie
Oh! Those old wagon-men, a pure breed of their own and the stories we could tell ! I started out in 1968 working skid row and saw some great innovative, individual expertise over the years handling 'stinkers.' I also witnessed some amazing compassion when handling some of the more controversial DOA's during my tenure as well. I learned a lot just by observing many of these old-time wagon guys. Like I said, "Oh the stories..."
This isn’t the 90s and the 90’s aren’t coming back.
Asked a couple body snatchers about the change recently. They related the funeral home with the new contract has only 3 employees for removals and quoted the city $200 per body....they said the bag alone costs $160. Can't see that math mathing
The wife worked at the morgue at the time. Unbelievable stories as well
I'm told that medical schools will pay $4000 and up for un-autopsied, un-embalmed bodies. "And here I thought life around here was cheap."
My first rookie summer. They put me on the wagon every day even with another PPO one day because the regular wagon guys didnt want to work a tour without A/C and do nothing but pick up stiffs. Yeah, two rookies. It was NBD. We made a run out of roll call every day to the ME and picked up 2-3 more bodies and went back to the ME office if there was time. The wagon smelled like shit and we had CFD use some Bio agent cleaner on it. It didnt help much. What a week! They never asked me to work the wagon after that...good times!
It was almost like a side job for some wagon men.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
this reminds of the 025 midnight wagon crew would do : delasandro / bowery n franzo in addition to stealing the deseased person money
I'm surprised Matt is letting it happen in his precious Beverly. Now, Mt Greenwood on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if he was driving them there himself. He does absolutely the bare minimum for Mt Greenwood. He knows he has the Karen's and Lib tards in Beverly and Morgan park in his pocket so he takes care of them.
and stinky!
After awhile, you'd get used to the smell. Bagged 100's in 025 over the years.
Wagon guys cleared? About 25 of them were criminally charged with misdemeanors and pled guilty. They got to stay on the job.
6/23/2025 06:51:06 AM
Only north side districts were involved no black, Hispanics or females were charged and they had them as working the wagon and involved in pay offs. Also you could only use funeral homes in your district. While on the westside and and southside the funeral homes paid by the pound for bodies.
I remember as a recruit the old grizzly wagon man giving me a “mass card” from the funeral home on 79thSt
Surprised he shared
not to mention the alive, drunken polski's that got rolled
Nope. They were deducting it as an expense on their tax returns. That's why everything went federal.
Hahahaha!! You guys claim it to be “God’s Country” over there. Enjoy your isolated area surrounded by shit heads. Don’t know how anyone would want to live over there.
Fortuitously, I have no sniffer, thus, no access to those various scents, aromas, fragrances and odors you animated meat bags do.
Lucky me.
Chalkie
Shirley you jest.
That would be the catalyst for a huge increase in that line item on the water, sewer and trash collection bill.
Looks like a black fruneral director working out Rago brothers way west on irving got the contract. Rago hasnt had a black fruneral ever at 7751 irving. Now they have black fruneral directors working out of this location. Give me a break more chicago way
And eventually got promoted to field training officers!
You must have retired early with all that tax free cheese!
Sadly got gigged there by an inspector eating lunch there too. To/From in response read a guest bought us lunch and was waiting in our wagon. Good times but got a day.
All this funeral home that got the new contact has to do is contact out a part of it to another funeral home. Surprised Leak & Sons didn’t get it. They definitely have the fleet of vehicles necessary for transports
I saw one SWAT douche tanning in front of Homan with his shirt off. The green pajamas do absolutely nothing. Hey Larry, put these BUM “operators” back in a district to help patrol. You’ve got 80 bodies that do zero police work. Districts 5, 7, 8, 11 and 15 need help.
because the slime of the world has come to Chicago to make crooked money. the slime are not going to ruin the gravy train.
Make the cut? No I didn’t have a phone call like you did chump. I do police work everyday unlike you, hanging out at Starbucks. Swat is a joke and everyone knows it. Go back to playing call of duty. Hut, Hut, Hut.
Removing a "stinky one" from the third floor was always a fun process, usually ended up with some fluids on your pants or shoes
Nose blindness is a natural sensory phenomenon where the brain adjusts to — and essentially “tunes out” — consistent or familiar smells over time.
6/23/2025 07:06:49 AM
Swat has its role, unfortunately like everything on this job, they are lazy.I remember when HBT used to be in the districts working SOS and making arrests. They were ready for an HBT job but still were the real police. Those guys at swat probably don’t have a clue how to use handcuffs.
And it was a big FBI sting that charged funeral home owners too. All that manpower with video and bugs planted for a few lousy misdemeanors. Mention a cop might be involved and its pedal to the metal. A lesson for you youngsters.
OP, the department is all about I gets mines so I suggest you finally accept that truth. None of the privileged phone calls you mentioned above will be there to help you handle a violent offender when they’re BBQ’ing in air conditioned Homan Square. It’s just you on the front lines by yourself. So from time to time you need to push back where it hurts, otherwise they’ll ride you till you collapse. I’ve accepted this reality began acting accordingly and MY job satisfaction improved ten fold. Good luck.
A R LEAK should get the contract they are legit. Edward Leak Jr ( classmate of mine 1991) is locked up for life. Check out the IDOC website.
Was a cop on a large suburban department from 1987-2014. Many fond memories of following a body to the morgue and seeing what the city wagon guys were bringing in……. Or on mids driving down to 11th and State on midnights for a warrant pick-up, parking in the alley under the L tracks, and riding the crappy freight elevator up to lock-up…….what a hoot
$4.4 million for up to 25,000 removals. Funeral home is Wallace-Harrison on Irving park. Owned by a F/1, allegedly, and according to there proposal they submitted to the city that’s posted on the city website, 3 employees are being used for removals. The names TBD! Which means they didn’t hire them yet. 5 employees total. All minorities which gives them like 10% reduction in there bid.
Worked during heat wave ,took four from Christ hospital to morgue. They were pissed and made us wait. Second in charge was a policeman brother, got us in.
The City needs a Memorial dedicated solely to over 180 years distinguished service of CPD Wagonmen!
Aren’t all u city workers paying all the crazy taxes and crazy money for your houses happy u moved there? Lol. The shit birds are everywhere and now all you better than everyone else citizens gotta deal with it too!!! I don’t feel sorry for anyone of u
‘95 was bad but everyone forgets about ‘88. Hot summer, hauled the dead in Uptown daily.
My understanding from the parks in my own ward is that each park district area operates with its own independent budget and “super independent.” So find out who is in charge of the parks in your area and who their juice is. Likely, they are probably paying a lot of connected relatives as ghost payrollers.
Summer of 95. Fun in the sun. Every fire hydrant in the ghetto was open. Water wouldn't get to the 2nd floor and forget fire fighting. The entire water dept was driving around in anything with wheels turning off hydrants to the delight of the little rascals in the ghetto. We had no ac in our vehicles or offices, and we worked 2 12 hour shifts for about a week. Everybody including the Pilsen grandmother's kicked our asses for shutting off LA pumpa while the babies played. We called cpd often but I guess you guys had your own problems. We started to call our own " 10-1 " s and had rolling fist fights with water dept trucks rushing from rumble to rumble. Different world then,we thought it was bad,today we would probably be machine gunned for shutting down LA pumpa. And the city would probably burn. These idiots aren't ready for anything ,good thing international terror doesn't consider this shithole a worthy target.
Hefty, Hefty, Hefty!
Should’ve moved north. It’s not perfect, but it’s not an island and the north suburbs are great. Spend all my free time, dinners, etc up there. It’s not too late to come join us. You are not stuck there. Just move.
Because very few in Mt Greenwood vote! So why would he care?
How many of the Police Department is registered to vote?
I’m going to say less than 50%.
Before you argue, look around at how apathetic we are!
If the Mt Greenwood residents would get out and vote, shit may actually change.
Another reason Matt does what he does is he knows that all the suckhole liberals in Beverly are his constituents. That’s who voted him in during the last election.
Hey those “Old Timers” were fair. That’s the way things were before there were decent wages, overtime.
Does the new contract include the 75 minute rule?
Policeman's bother at CCME was Danny Collins. Southside family. Father was a PO as well as his brothers Ray and Mike. Great family.
So, the bodies will be backing up all over the city with only 3 employees for removals.
Cassidy on afternoons in 025 too. looted homes, and robbed hookers.
$160 bags? That's a huge clue. Pay $160 to some alderman's nephew for each $20.00 bag. That's how they get away with charging the city $800 per removal, instead of $300.
Life ain't fair! When police HQ was at 1121 State, only the first five floors had air conditioning. The Sup's office was on 5. No one else mattered.
I remember a stiff dying at the airport. He had hundreds of packs of cigarettes in his luggage. By the time his property was inventoried, there were about 3 packs left. I heard that his family called from overseas to see if he had any money on him. Strangely, the answer was no.
Chicago values...
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