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Pothole Problems Persist For Those Near Chicago's Ford City Drive

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Images from Drone2 show giant craters in the road, making Ford City Drive one of the worst roads in the area.

CBS 2 has been asking when it will be fixed for a year. The repairs came on Thursday.

But CBS 2's Jeremy Ross reports the repairs are not to the whole road.

Dozens of crew members were out earlier Thursday, but from the air, there's a different perspective. Sheets of blacktop are only hours old, but that work stops at an obvious point. Then the streets show severe decay and potholes.

There's a reason for that.

Neighbors said for the first time in more than a decade, part of the surface of the Ford City Drive is finally smooth and level.

"That is progress," said Sylvester Moore.

CBS 2 first visited Moore last year. He owns a condo in the area. In 2018, the potholes were leveling some car tires.

The stretch at the time was called one of Chicago's worst roadways. Now it's getting a $600,000 tax-payer funded makeover, but beyond a white line in the road, Moore said, "I have pay for it again."

That's because the street is paved up to the part the city said it's responsible for. Condo owners living nearby privately own the other parts of the street, meaning, if they want fresh pavement across the white line, it's coming out of their wallets.

Ald. Derrick Curtis estimates paving the rest of the road would cost $400,000.

"(Just) can't take city money and put it on private land. If that's the case, we'd have to do everyone's driveway," Curtis said.

The alderman added that he is planning on hosting meetings with neighbors and nearby property owners to see if there's a way to fix the road in its entirety.

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