There's a mystery at Westgard's Canal in Loyola Park.Last summer, a local man dug a trench to drain a large puddle at a park along Lake Michigan, near the eastern end of W. Lunt Avenue.
Single handedly, he marched with a little shovel to Loyola Park on Chicago's north side, in the eccentric Rogers Park neighborhood. The trench he dug was crude, but failed to provide drainage for the better part of a year. (Photo, top, taken April 4, 2008.)
The man was so proud of digging a little trench to drain a puddle that he boasted about it on his web site. (He was later so embarrassed by it that he deleted the posting.)Within the past 72 hours, new digging was executed at the site now referred to as "Westgard's Canal" (bottom two photos).
It's another trench, a mirror of the original. Whoever did the new digging, which is just as crude as the original, did not care about tidiness.
It is now more treacherous than ever for somebody to walk through the area, with increased danger of twisted knees or ankles.The newly expanded mess looks as inefficient as the original mess. Who did this? Was it Westgard again? Or some other attorney?
