Crime may be down, but Rogers Park and Edgewater residents still don’t feel safe.
By FELICIA DECHTER
Rogers Park resident Steve Straus would rather walk several blocks than pay $1 an hour to park in the lakefront lot at Loyola Park, next door to his house.
“I would park three blocks away before I would pay any money for this frickin’ lot,” said Straus, a neighbor for…
Ald. Joe Moore, named the “Most Valuable Local Progressive Politician” by The Nation became the “Most Explosive Progressive” when he pitched a bitch at Saturday’s IVI-IPO fundraiser.
Ald. Joe Moore will plug the meters in two lakefront public parking lots at an annual cost of $89,000 in aldermanic menu money over the next three years in a compromise reached with the Chicago Park District on Wednesday, allowing residents to continue parking overnight at Loyola Park and Leone Beach at no cost.
Ald. Joe Moore (49th Ward) brokered a deal with the Chicago Park District that will allow Rogers Park residents to continue parking overnight in the Loyola Park and Leone Beach parking lots without having to plug the meters. LEN will post full coverage of today’s park district board meeting later this evening.
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