UPDATED 04-01-98: DEMOLITION HALTED BY IEPA BECAUSE OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS... CLICK FOR FULL STORYThey were in such a hurry to tear it down. Such a hurry.
I was taking photos of the late, now mangled North Shore School yesterday. A woman who lives next door asked me why I was taking pictures.
"Posterity," I said, smiling.
"Oh, well, I hope they clean this up soon," she said. "It's been like this for weeks."
Yes, they did what you see in the photos - and then stopped. The woman said they did it in one day. It's been about three weeks since the demolition, and nothing else has happened since. "I've called Alderman Moore's office several times asking when they're going to clean up this mess. He's gotten back to me on other issues, but he hasn't called me back about this."
This begs the question: Knowing that a challenge was forming from Don Gordon and others who feel that at least a couple of portions of lake shore protection laws were violated, is it possible that the owner / demo company / developer / Joe Moore urged the immediate destruction? What else could explain the complete lack of "progress" in the days since the destruction of a beloved landmark?
