Similarly, the Wilson El rental agreement required that the tenants in the building under the El platform improve the properties with paint jobs, window improvements, and other upgrades years ago. We know that CTA refused and the alderman refused to see that that city legal document get enforced also.

Also, look at the City’s street furniture contract. We are supposed to have wrought iron information kiosks for the parks. I have pictures of those babies from the original presentation and been pointing to the lines in city contract that say they were supposed to be delivered years ago but there is not one yet to be found in the city. Why doesn’t the City enforce that contract?

The bottom line is that these contracts are written so that the citizens have no power to enforce these contracts and thus they are worthless to the community. Contracts like these allow the city and alderman to chose whether or not to enforce the provisions, usually some day down the road when the community is less stirred up about the issue. Thus, the legal document only serves as a distraction to let the community think that they have won an issue when, in fact, the party in the contract is only bound to city and aldermanic politics.