Like a black hole, this pot hole in Rogers Park just keeps getting bigger. Stuff gets sucked into it. And it seems, like a black hole, that it will not go away for a long, long time.The top photo was taken on July 15 as I walked to the Clark Street Festival. The whole was big and deep then. It is even bigger today, nine weeks later.
The only thing the City has done for it is to lay out some orange cones and a saw horse. The hole remains, however, a hazard to pedestrians and bikers.
The growing hole is located just outside of the alley that runs along the west side of the church at Morse and Ashland. You know, the church that has no nuclear weapons inside. (They have a sign that says so, and I believe them.)
There is hope, however. A trailer from the Department of Water Management sits inactive and unattended a few yards away.Perhaps one of these days the DWM will take some of its workers away from reading newspapers and napping in the bushes so they can fix this hole before someone gets hurt.
