In Downtown Oak Park, a typical winter season: incompetent snow removal with no supervision. Either the walks are unsalted and uncleared, or they are piled high at curbsides so one has to pole vault over mounds of snow to cross the street. And how does Downtown Oak Park’s oligarchy respond? Implications that snow in mid-winter is unexpected, too fast moving, grin and bear it, etc., while blabbering to all to “Shop Oak Park.”
We who own buildings and businesses in this area are forced to conduct our businesses amid such surreal, swirling incompetence while being forced to pay extra real estate tax assessment surcharges to bolster an organization which can’t remove snow and salt despite having an $800,000 budget. Rather than planning for winter in Chicago, it plans for doggie marriages, and presumably upcoming doggie divorces. I can only hope and pray that at election time, property owners and business owners in this area remember what December (and presumably January, February, and March) was like in this area, sanctioned by village government.
Anthony Shaker
Owner of Shaker Advertising
