Is This True?

The Department made the Gold Star families park blocks away?

• On Friday, December 5, 2025, the Superintendent decided to hold the Gold Star Tree Lighting Ceremony at Headquarters, even though construction is ongoing and the Case of Stars display remains incomplete. Fine, the gesture itself was meaningful.
  
  Yet not one of you could be bothered—for a single day—to surrender your privileged, reserved parking spots for the Gold Star families you claim to honor. Instead, you directed these grieving mothers, fathers, spouses, and children to park in the far west lot near State Street.
  
  Of course you don’t care. Your egos are far too large for basic human decency.
  
  There is a special place in hell for people who treat Gold Star families as an inconvenience.

The Department probably should have had everyone else who "works" at HQ park over at Comiskey and then use vans or buses to transport them to work for the day.

We'd say this just proves the decision to not build an actual parking garage at HQ was a mistake of epic proportions. Many of the new stations have those six-story monstrosities that are never half full....unless there's a Cubs game up north, then everyone and their brother tries to park there.