Business owners, residents worry over falling rusty light poles

CHICAGO (CBS) — We have realized of two more light poles that have toppled over in a windy 48 hours throughout the town.

Bringing the grand whole to at least 5 and bringing taxpayers to their wits’ conclude.

CBS2’s Tim McNicholas documented from Sheffield and Armitage with what transpired.

“This was on the floor.”

Amy Helgren says she assumed she’d listened to a car accident Thursday afternoon. She stepped outside the house and observed this outside her children’s apparel keep on this active part of Armitage.

“We just seemed at just about every other like, thank goodness that it fell that way, and nobody was on the sidewalk going for walks, could have been a good deal worse,” Helgren stated.  

Just a few blocks away at Armitage and Halsted, a pole crashed down on to a auto early yesterday early morning. And we’ve found at least 3 other fallen poles in Chicago considering that Wednesday.

Luckily, no just one was damage.

“It in no way would have occurred to me, going for walks down the street, that I would have to worry about a light-weight pole falling on a person.”  

A neighboring business operator suggests he’s nervous about the wear and tear on this pole just feet away. And he’s not the only 1 with his eye on poles that have not fallen still.

Cicero Chimbanda is a jogger who’s worried about these rusty poles concerning the 100 and 300 blocks of South Lake Shore Push.

“You will not wanna have nearly anything, specifically with the wind. It’s a windy town so you wanna make positive matters are secure,” he mentioned.

And he is not the only one particular whose observed.

The city’s very own knowledge from an audit finished a handful of several years ago displays considerations about at least 8 mild poles on the 300 block of South Lake Shore — yet there are nonetheless rusty poles in the area.

We referred to as the office of Alderman Brendan Reilly and an support explained to us they questioned the Section of Transportation again in February to inspect and substitute rusty poles across the ward.

They’re nonetheless waiting on an update.

“I seem at this and I say, that is just a matter of time,” Chimbanda mentioned.  

Again on Armitage, small business proprietors would like the town to examine on these light poles far too.

We’ve attained out to the Section of Transportation Friday to question about the fallen pole and the ones on Lake Shore Travel — but we haven’t listened to back again.