Nicor Contamination Cleanup Hits a 'Bump in the Road'
Residents surrounding the Skokie area should expect to see 192 trucks a day for 21 months carrying contaminated waste in order to clean up a site proposed for a new sports park. The traffic route for the trucks has not been finalized.
A contamination cleanup at the southwest corner of Oakton Street and McCormick Boulevard has hit a 'bump in the road' after a public forum at McCracken School Tuesday. The contaminated land - which is adjacent to the Skokie Sports Park on Oakton Street - will soon turn into a massive sports field, with three lighted baseball diamonds, a soccer field and possibly even a place to play cricket. But before any construction can begin, Nicor Gas - along with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency - have to dispose of contaminated material beneath the ground. Lincolnwood residents became "outraged" after they learned of the traffic route the trucks carrying the contaminated waste would take to dispose of the material. The original plan was …
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Nasia
8:46 pm on Sunday, July 22, 2012
I beg to differ with you here, George. I live 2 blocks from where Carter was killed. It had nothing to do with "safety", it had to do with a woman who was wasted out of her skull, was known to be a drug user and who caused a tragic accident. Meanwhile, my parents and neighbors have been writing to Skokie village for over THREE years to get a stop sign put up on the intersection (Keeler and … more ›