Mayday, Mayday. Where are the salt trucks in Homer Glen? The streets were recently all ice-covered, and outgoing Homer Township Highway Commissioner Mike DeVivo still didn’t want to salt the streets. He just doesn’t care about the safety of drivers in Homer. That’s why he’s going to leave Illinois when he retires.
Rock, Homer Glen
I’m a soon-to-be-retired police officer. The Chicago Police Department is trained to deal with mentally ill people and domestic disturbances. We’re also trained to go home safe to our families when confronted with a person like Quintonio LeGrier waving an aluminum bat. Maybe it’s time for Chicago Public Schools to have a class on not attacking your family or the police with bats, knives or guns. These children lack parental supervision and don’t know how to act. It’s not the police. It’s the person wielding the bat, knife or gun.
Here is one of the problems in Chicago. Now we have dash-cam video of Ronald Johnson with a gun and firing it. He gets shot and protesters still don’t believe that there’s any reason to shoot these people. The problem is not the police, it’s the community itself.
Tom, Burbank
Ever try talking to a person to ask a simple question at the village of Oak Lawn phone number? There is not even an option to do so, and then the call is ended by “We will be closed Christmas Eve and Christmas and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day,” and this is heard in mid-January. Also, the listing for a directory by name is difficult to understand because of double voices. There must be a way to provide better service.
Barbara, Oak Lawn
To George from USA.: I am 81 years old and a former veteran. To say I smoke home-rolled “cigarettes,” and that’s why I believe the Chicago Cubs will win a World Series, shows your ignorance. What kind of optimism do you have for the Chicago White Sox? None. You need to quit eating those cracker cookies.
Mathew, Chicago Heights
When Tinley Park got three new trustees — Michael Pannitto, Jake Vandenberg and Brian Younker — in the April village election, I thought the snow removal would get a lot better, but it seems like it’s gotten worse.
Mike, Tinley Park
I’d like to comment on the services of the village of Crestwood. I’ve lived in the village for more than 30 years and never have I seen it so bad here. They don’t do the streets anymore. They are so full of slush and ice. They never come out. If it’s a holiday or schools are closed, the Village Hall is closed. This is not a good village to live in.
Well, just what we need, more red light cameras in Oak Lawn. I will be avoiding 111th Street and Cicero Avenue and the shopping center at 95th Street and Pulaski Road. Stick those red light cameras where the sun don’t shine.
Bob, Oak Lawn
It’s a proven fact that employees in right-to-work states average lower wages and fewer benefits than those working in states without a right-to-work law. It’s amazing that we still hear this rhetoric supporting people’s “right to work” from those who think that unions are the demon in our economy. Keep listening to that stuff that Gov. Bruce Rauner feeds you and then sit in the dark.
I have been a Tinley Park homeowner for 13 years. Once or twice during every snow season, the 84th Avenue Cook County snowplow knocks down my regulation mailbox and those of four or five of my neighbors. By now, it is way beyond annoying. I am an elderly female in poor health, and it is also difficult to clear the icebergs that the plow deposits in my corner-house driveway. I know we need the streets clear, but can technology or training of snowplow crews be improved?
Tinley Park
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