Chicago Resident, 90, Tells City: Fix The Giant Hole On My Street, Already
Woman Waits For Hole To Be Fixed
(CBS) -- A 90-year-old resident of Chicago's Gage Park neighborhood says she's been trying since early summer to get the city to do something about the large hole just outside her home.
WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
Since 1966, Martha Krasauskis has lived in her home on South Talman. And since July, she's been trying to get somebody to do something about the four-foot wide, four-foot deep hole in the street and the parkway right by her curb.
"Four months. Four months exactly," she says.
Krasauskis says it was a storm that eroded the street and part of the parkway.
And she says it's dangerous because there's a school right down the block.
"I'd say maybe the second or third day after that hole sunk in there, I seen a little three-year-old girl all alone, and she stood there. And I thought, if I holler at her, she's going to fall in that hole," the resident says.
She says two weeks ago, the city finally sent somebody out to put boards loosely over the hole and the pipes she says are down there. But she says the job is far from finished.
"They're seeing we're going to have cold weather. If those pipes freeze, I'm afraid my pipes in the house are going to freeze. Maybe they'll burst, I don't know," Krasauskis says.
She adds: "And I'm here all by myself. What do I do? Go swimming in there?"
A spokesman for the city Water Department now tells WBBM a crew is expected on the job Thursday.
