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Article: Riding pothole patrol on city's mean streets
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 13, 1988
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Here's a real plain message to Chicago motorists from the street
repair crews at the Streets and Sanitation Department: "We'll patch
your potholes gladly. But we'd do a better job, faster, if you'd
quit trying to hit us."
I was a player in this game of pavement roulette the other day,
though I only meant to volunteer to fill holes in the street.
Lucky for me, crew members carefully protected me from menacing
drivers along three blocks of Randolph near Canal. But the creeps
are out there.
"A lot of people aim for you 'cause they're so mad that you're
slowing traffic," said Joe Miceli, 47, crew foreman and a 29-year
veteran of the streets. "Sometimes," he said, "you actually gotta
jump ...