Open sink holes are all over Uptown. We have them at Montrose and Clarendon, Lawrence and Kenmore, and now Winthrop and Kenmore. This hole has been reported to 311 countless times but one last flurry of calls may do the trick. This hole is at least 4 feet deep and you can even see down under the street. Its technically located behind the condo building at 4616-20 N Kenmore. It has become a great trash receptacle for empty beer cans. Let's hope we don't have our own Uptown version of "baby Jessica" in the near future. Get this hole plugged!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Into The Rabbit Hole On Winthrop
Open sink holes are all over Uptown. We have them at Montrose and Clarendon, Lawrence and Kenmore, and now Winthrop and Kenmore. This hole has been reported to 311 countless times but one last flurry of calls may do the trick. This hole is at least 4 feet deep and you can even see down under the street. Its technically located behind the condo building at 4616-20 N Kenmore. It has become a great trash receptacle for empty beer cans. Let's hope we don't have our own Uptown version of "baby Jessica" in the near future. Get this hole plugged!
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when you call did you get a tracking number? did you then follow up with that tracking number later and ask the status? and again and again? THATs the way to do it. just calls to to 311 w/o getting this number will not stop the problem. this is for everything in the city....!!
ReplyDeleteI just called and got a tracking number. The lady was extremely rude and didn't even say thank-you when the call was over...she simply hung up. I would have thought that this would have been fixed in September when this was first posted.
ReplyDeletenice UU now you are the Sinkhole Update hey, that's more fittin.
ReplyDeleteI don't if you realize it but all over Chicago with the harsh winter sinkholes have been a problem.
Not Shiller's fault more old man winter.
This "sinkhole" has been there for at least a year. It has nothing to do with our recent harsh winter. It is a 4 foot deep uncovered hole just waiting to swallow someone or something. Try commenting in complete sentences next time.
ReplyDeleteThey need to monitor the computer usage at the "Internet Chat Room" a bit better methinks.
ReplyDeleteThere's a pretty good one on the NW corner of Agatite & Hazel, too.
ReplyDeleteI filled one up myself after a friend literally fell into it all the way down to his crotch...you can get killed..this wasn't just a hole it was a cavern...4, 20 pound bags of wood chips, lots of 2 x 4's, 4 20 pound bags of dirt....the wood chips worked well...they are still visible....I did this 8 months ago and it's still holding up but it's soft and I suppose temporary...there is a sewer that always backs up to it.
ReplyDeleteIt's on the East side of the street on Winthrop second Lampost from Lawrence. next to the sewer...it could swallow a small child.....if it weren't filled in someone could have been serious injured especially druing the winter
That sure would make a good place to stash some drugs.
ReplyDeleteThere is a sewer sink hole at Irving and Sheridan that has both an orange cone and a full-sized city garbage can in it to prevent any cars from driving in and not coming out.
ReplyDeletePer our TIF study, our sewers are over 100 year old ---just like the ones at Ravenswood and Montrose that collapsed this summer.
ReplyDeleteif it isn't corrected in a week and you have that tracking number, call back and see what the "status" is!
ReplyDeleteit isn't easy to get tracking numbers..they dont' like to give them out b/c then they know you can follow up..that's prob why she was rude to you on the phone. good job though..getting one..sometimes they are hard to get!
When I have used the city website to do requests like for pothole filling, I automatically get an e-mail with a tracking number. I'm surprised but our alley potholes got repaired a few weeks ago - less than a month after I requested it (and they were all new from this winter, since I'd requested a large one be fixed last fall).
ReplyDeleteOne problem with submitting the city service requests online is that you can't use the tracking numbers that the online system generates!
ReplyDeleteThe tracking numbers you get from originally reporting the request through the 311 phone system can be used by calling back the 311 operator and asking for the status of that request by providing that tracking number. If you attempt to do the same by providing the number that the online system gave to you, the 311 operator cannot pull up the status. It's not in her system.
City Hall's 311 system's left hand does not talk to City Hall's 311 system's right hand.
In general, pot hole filling is working. Sewers, water mains, and anything related to underground infrastructure in Uptown is not working.
ReplyDelete(Except for those Municipal Sewer Services and Chicago General Services Dept guys stringing miles of underground cable from Lakeside to the Uptown Neighborhood Health Clinic to Montrose and Lincoln Avenue. Pray that our TIF is not paying for that too.)
PROGRESS!
ReplyDeleteNo, the hole hasn't been fixed, even after a year.
But in the past couple days, we got... an orange cone next to it! Yes, a bright shiny orange cone next to the sinkhole. Now it matches its buddy in Clarendon Park.
The City That Works in ACTION!