Snoodles hears this on the street - Morse Avenue, to be exact. Joe Moore has just discovered the Grill Inn restaurant at 1422 W. Morse Avenue.
So what? So, Grill Inn opened five months ago, and 49th Ward Alderman Joe Moore just paid his first visit to it. Moore, who pretends to be very interested in the development of troubled Morse Avenue and Rogers Park in general. He's not, not really, and this report demonstrates it neatly.
"How long have you been open?" Moore asked an employee. Unbelievable.
Morse Avenue can fairly be called a depressed street, with many empty commercial spaces. The alderman should have been doing back flips to get over to Grill Inn when it opened last fall. He should have sent out an announcement to welcome them. He should be eating there once a week. This was his first visit.
Moore was not alone. He was walking around on Morse Avenue with a uniformed police officer, "a top cop" as my source put it. "His name sounded like Curtis or something." Did the source mean "Caluris," the new 24th District commander? "Yah, I think so, yah," said reliable source.
Moore asked the employee how everything was going. Moore got an earful about the beat cop who walks the street in the morning, but no beat cop at night. "It's great in the morning, but we need a beat cop on foot out there at night."
Did Moore buy anything? Did he sample any of Grill Inn's excellent fare? Nope. Joe Moore has been too busy campaigning for Obama in other states for months now. No wonder he didn't know anything about Grill Inn. But couldn't he have at least purchased a hot dog while he was there?
