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What the F is the deal with Chicago?
    #15217064 - 10/12/11 11:36 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

This article highlights just a few of the things that boggle my fucking mind about the city of Chicago. 

I can't believe it's Milton Friedman's old stomping grounds...

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CHICAGO—At 6:45 on a recent morning, three burly men in yellow slickers piled into a city garbage truck for a two-mile ride to a weed-choked alley where a row of 96-gallon trash bins awaited.

Over the next few hours, the men emptied scores of black containers, hopping on and off their truck as they lumbered from block to block. It's a tough job but quitting time usually comes early. Total time worked on a typical shift: about 5½ hours, according to a city audit.

Peter Hoffman for The Wall Street Journal

Perry Brown, 63, collects trash with coworkers from the Streets and Sanitation Department in Chicago's Ward 30. 'It's a nasty job,' he said, 'but it's the best paying job I've ever had.'

"Nobody works for the city for eight hours," said Kris Squalls, a 48-year-old Teamster who has driven a city garbage truck for 25 years and now makes about $70,000 a year. "Not the mayor, not anybody."

Since taking office in May, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has promised to change that attitude and fix the way the city does business, part of a broad effort to close a $636 million budget gap.

Mr. Emanuel has picked fights with the teachers' union to extend the school day, moved police from desk jobs to the street, chased after unpaid taxes and overdue parking tickets, eliminated hundreds of city jobs and announced he would put out for bid a portion of the city's recycling program.

But for the former White House chief of staff to clean up Chicago's balance sheet, he'll also have to take a hard look at how the city tends its trash. While corporate America, as well as other cities, have spent years getting leaner, much of Chicago's $6 billion municipal machinery seems frozen in time.

In garbage, the result is a grossly inefficient system dictated by generous union contracts and Byzantine ward politics. This combination has bought labor peace and satisfied local politicians, at the cost of zigzagging truck routes that waste time, fuel and taxpayer money.

During his 22 years in power, Mr. Emanuel's predecessor, Richard M. Daley, helped transform the city from a manufacturing and meat-packing hub into a global financial-services capital.

But in the final years of his tenure, Mr. Daley wasn't as successful at fiscal management, said Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, a business-funded government watchdog organization. The city's budget shortfall increased to $654.8 million in fiscal 2011 from $94.8 million in fiscal 2007, according to a report by the federation. Spending climbed 8% over the period even as revenues sank.

To cover the difference, Mr. Daley sold or leased such public assets as toll roads, parking meters and parking garages. In 2010, one-time revenue fixes covered 17% of the budget and all three major credit-rating firms cut the city's bond rating. To appease labor leaders as he pursued an ultimately failed bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Mr. Daley signed more than 30 union contracts that promised workers annual raises of as much as 3.5% through 2017.

The contracts also protected some comically inefficient separations of responsibility that require, for example, three workers to change the bulb on a street light—a driver, a laborer and an electrician—and two workers to run a power washer while removing graffiti.

In one deal, only Teamsters are allowed to drive most city trucks—and driving is all they are required to do, prompting complaints from citizens who see drivers sleeping or loafing in their vehicles at job sites.

Dick Simpson, a former alderman and chairman of the political science department of the University of Illinois at Chicago, released a study this year of waste, theft, patronage, nepotism and contract rigging that estimated such behavior costs residents close to $350 million a year, a figure based on city reports and court cases over the past two decades.

After Mr. Daley announced he wouldn't run for a seventh term as mayor, Mr. Emanuel, a former Illinois congressman and onetime fund-raiser for Mr. Daley, pledged to return from his White House job to dismantle the political machine he once worked for. Nearly all of the city's unions backed Mr. Emanuel's opponents, but he still won with 55% of the vote.

On Wednesday, after a frenetic five months in office, Mr. Emanuel released his proposed 2012 city budget, which included $20 million in estimated savings through creation of more efficient trash collection routes. It was unclear how many jobs would be cut.
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"The current system, based on ward boundaries, is no longer sustainable," Mr. Emanuel said. "Chicago spends approximately $100 more per ton to collect garbage than L.A. and Boston. Now, I have a lot of pride in Chicago. But even I don't think our garbage is more valuable than theirs."

City unions remain wary. "The jury is still out. A lot of these ideas seem fine until you find out what is going into them," said Jorge Ramirez, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, which represents 320 public and private unions. "He got elected on strong management. So manage."

Mr. Emanuel said in an interview that he would make the garbage-collection system more efficient, while appeasing elected officials who could stand in his way.

"The days of having trash pickup by political design only are over," he said. The mayor acknowledged that changing the system would be historic. "It's a culture and a mindset…of 50 years," he said.

The big problem with Chicago is that it doesn't have one system serving its 600,000 households. It has 50.

Each of the city's 50 wards—including many oddly shaped crescents, slivers and L-shaped neighborhoods created by years of gerrymandering—is its own garbage district with its own bureaucracy, equipment, laborers and drivers.

"Chicago is absolutely unique in this country because it's based on a system whose boundaries are established for political reasons and have no relationship to route efficiency," said Chaz Miller, a director for the National Solid Waste Management Association, which represents private waste haulers and recyclers. "It makes it impossible to take advantage of an economy of scale."

The higher costs don't end there. Unlike nearly every other U.S. city, Chicago assigns three workers to most trucks instead of one or two.

Chicago has an absentee rate of nearly 30% among segments of the city labor force, according to Mr. Emanuel. And when on the job, garbage laborers work an average of 5½ hours per eight-hour shift, according to a 2008 investigation by the city inspector general's office.

The result is that city residents pay about three times as much for trash removal as do residents in Dallas, Phoenix, Miami, San Diego and Houston, and nearly twice as much as Los Angeles residents.

By switching to a more efficient grid system and dropping to one laborer and one driver per truck, the city could do the same job with 25% fewer workers and save $40 million, said Joseph Ferguson, the city's inspector general.

"There is a significant cost to that old system," Mr. Ferguson said. "It's an anachronism dating back to the old ward-heeler, patronage-based operation."

The boundaries in ward 30—where Mr. Squalls, the Teamster, works—are a prime example.

A decade ago, the last time the City Council redrew ward boundaries, neighboring aldermen appropriated portions of the 30th ward, leaving it shaped like a horseshoe, said Ariel Reboyras, the ward's current alderman.

The ward, a string of working class Latino and Polish neighborhoods on the northwest side of the city, is three miles long but narrows to as thin as two blocks in some stretches. A dogleg in the southwest corner was carved out to incorporate the home of a political opponent whom the other, adjoining aldermen didn't want to deal with.

"It's crazy," Mr. Reboyras said of the boundaries. "Totally nuts."

Beyond the irregular shapes, inefficiencies creep up because aldermen seek to maintain long-established pickup days. Garbage trucks often travel down alleys that switch from one ward to the next and back, each one with different trash schedules.

On a recent morning, a Ward 30 truck drove to the Hermosa neighborhood of two- and three-family brick homes. After collecting trash from a single block, the three-man crew drove four more blocks, through an adjacent ward, before re-entering Ward 30 to continue working.

Given their orders, Mr. Reboyras said, garbage workers are as efficient as possible. "These guys have it down to a science," he said.

Elected to three terms, most recently with 75% of the vote, Mr. Reboyras defended the ward-based trash system. Because he appoints the ward superintendent who directs the trucks, he can oblige residents who call for a special pick up. These so-called specials are part of his electoral success and he logs each one—whether for trash, rodent control or street sweeping— in a black three-ring binder. In a typical month, he sends trucks on more than 300 special trash pickups.

Revamping the city's collection system—centralizing service and cutting aldermen out of the loop—would strip officials like Mr. Reboyras of key powers. That threat raises the possibility of a rare and potentially embarrassing veto by the City Council if Mr. Emanuel moves to remake city trash services.

Mr. Reboyras said wholesale changes would mean worse service and layoffs. "We're in the middle of a recession," he said. "Where do you think these guys will go?"

Mr. Emanuel said it was too early to talk about job cuts. He plans to create a grid but not cut the authority of aldermen entirely. "They still have a service role," he said. "Because you're planning on picking up garbage—like UPS—on a more efficient model, doesn't mean their responsibilities to their constituents are evaporated."

Perry Brown, a 63-year-old city laborer with a neatly trimmed white beard and an 11th-grade education, said he doubted he could find another $32-an-hour job if he were cut. He earns about $90,000 a year in salary and benefits, enough to send two of his three children through college and buy a three-bedroom home.

Tough talk against city laborers is usually voiced by sedentary bureaucrats with soft hands, he said: "We work harder than any of them."

On a recent work day, Mr. Brown left home before dawn in a new white Cadillac. Once at the ward sanitation yard, he ate breakfast—a bologna sandwich—and changed into work clothes. On a typical day, he'll endure bad smells, leaky garbage bags, rodents, dead animals and, depending on the season, searing heat or driving snow.

"It's a nasty job," he said, "but it's the best paying job I've ever had."




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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #15218177 - 10/13/11 08:31 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Another mind-boggling thing--Chicago has the highest sales tax and some of the highest taxes in general in the nation but has the shittiest roads outside of New Orleans (which may be the only major city in the US that has a chance of being more corrupt than Chicago). 

The other day I saw a cop stop at a red light, and then drive right through it like it was a stop sign.


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #15218736 - 10/13/11 10:45 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Sure its nasty but it certainly doesnt sound difficult.

It seems like I keep finding new and more ridiculous things about Chicago, its a entertaining specimen.

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The other day I saw a cop stop at a red light, and then drive right through it like it was a stop sign.





LOL


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: snoot]
    #15218928 - 10/13/11 11:28 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Ah... Chicago, where the dead vote, twice.

Union pension anyone?


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #15219945 - 10/13/11 02:54 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Chicago is the most corrupt city in our nation.

I've lived there, the system is terrible.


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #15221141 - 10/13/11 06:12 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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Chicago is the most corrupt city in our nation.

I've lived there, the system is terrible.





I know.  I want to know why.  What conditions existed in Chicago that didn't exist elsewhere that allowed this to happen?


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #15221730 - 10/13/11 07:58 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Complete and utter stranglehold on all aspects of city politics by Democrats - going back generations and generations.



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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: Phred]
    #15221775 - 10/13/11 08:06 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

I just found out that Chicago bans all airsoft guns within the city limits.  Their capacity to amaze me has yet to be exhausted.


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: Phred]
    #15221824 - 10/13/11 08:13 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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Complete and utter stranglehold on all aspects of city politics by Democrats - going back generations and generations.





What conditions are specific to Chicago, that aren't present elsewhere, that have enabled that stranglehold?


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #15223616 - 10/14/11 05:01 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

> What conditions are specific to Chicago, that aren't present elsewhere, that have enabled that stranglehold?

Look into Detroit as well.  It is another large city that is on par with Chicago for corruption.


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: Phred]
    #15224026 - 10/14/11 08:41 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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Complete and utter stranglehold on all aspects of city politics by Democrats - going back generations and generations.



Phred





The situation is shitty, therefore, Democrats. :ancientaliens:


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: dtowntoker]
    #15224038 - 10/14/11 08:45 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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dtowntoker said:
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Phred said:
Complete and utter stranglehold on all aspects of city politics by Democrats - going back generations and generations.



Phred





The situation is shitty, therefore, Democrats.




Or golly, it could just be that the Dems have been the only power there for quite some time.


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: dtowntoker]
    #15224048 - 10/14/11 08:48 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

You know, like this...


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During much of the last half of the 19th century, Chicago's politics were dominated by a growing Democratic Party organization dominated by ethnic ward-heelers. During the 1880s and 1890s, Chicago had a powerful radical tradition with large and highly organized socialist, anarchist and labor organizations.[107] For much of the 20th century, Chicago has been among the largest and most reliable Democratic strongholds in the United States, with Chicago's Democratic vote the state of Illinois has been "solid blue" in presidential elections since 1992. The citizens of Chicago have not elected a Republican mayor since 1927, when William Thompson was voted into office. The strength of the party in the city is partly a consequence of Illinois state politics, where the Republicans have come to represent the rural and farm concerns while the Democrats support urban issues such as Chicago's public school funding. Chicago contains close to 25% of the state's population, and as such, eight of Illinois' 19 U.S. Representatives have part of Chicago in their districts.

Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's mastery of machine politics preserved the Chicago Democratic Machine long after the demise of similar machines in other large U.S. cities.[108] During much of that time, the city administration found opposition mainly from a liberal "independent" faction of the Democratic Party. The independents finally gained control of city government in 1983 with the election of Harold Washington. From 1989 until May 16, 2011, Chicago was under the leadership of Richard M. Daley, the son of Richard J. Daley. Because of the dominance of the Democratic Party in Chicago, the Democratic primary vote held in the spring is generally more significant than the general elections in November for U S House and Illinois State seats. The aldermanic, mayoral, and other city offices are filled through nonpartisan elections with runoffs if needed. On May 16, 2011, Rahm Emanuel was sworn in as the 55th mayor of Chicago, ending a 22-year era led by Richard M. Daley.




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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #15224055 - 10/14/11 08:51 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Chicago Democratic Machine

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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #15224085 - 10/14/11 08:56 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Just opens to a blank page for me. Want to add something?


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #15224088 - 10/14/11 08:58 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Because their party had more to do with it than their greed.

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Just opens to a blank page for me. Want to add something?





Must be difficult to remove the first six characters, huh?


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #15224089 - 10/14/11 08:58 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Never mind, got in another way. Maybe your link is fucked?


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: dtowntoker]
    #15224090 - 10/14/11 08:59 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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Must be difficult to remove the first six characters, huh?




Aren't you the impatient lil' fella.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: dtowntoker]
    #15224096 - 10/14/11 09:00 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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Because their party had more to do with it than their greed.




:rofl2:

Could be. Doesn't change the fact that Phred's comment was correct.

Burns your ass, doesn't it?

:rofl2:


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers


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Re: What the F is the deal with Chicago? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #15224108 - 10/14/11 09:06 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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dtowntoker said:
Because their party had more to do with it than their greed.




:rofl2:

Could be. Doesn't change the fact that Phred's comment was correct.

Burns your ass, doesn't it?

:rofl2:





Actually it does little to my ass, as much as you get off on thinking it does.  My point is completely valid as is Phred's, all I am pointing out is that it is easy to marginalize "Democrats" instead of looking at the whole picture. IF you want to add something to the discussion instead of simply dick riding, go right ahead.


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