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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"news",<br>"author":"the-onion",<br>"permlink":"city-of-chicago-working-around-clock-to-clear-18-inches-of-bullet-casings-from-streets",<br>"title":"City Of Chicago Working Around Clock To Clear 18 Inches Of Bullet Casings From Streets",<br>"body":"<center>![image.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/3tHxgElY-image.png)<\/center>\n\n<center>![oni.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/JGuqUjR3-oni.png)<\/center>\n\n*CHICAGO* \u2014 Promising that every effort would be made to limit the impact on residents\u2019 day-to-day lives,<br> Chicago officials announced Wednesday that a fleet of plows was working around the clock to clear more than 18 inches of fresh bullet casings that had blanketed the metropolitan area overnight.\n\nSources at the city\u2019s Department of Streets and Sanitation confirmed that over 250 ammunition-removal vehicles had been deployed to deal with the knee-deep layer of spent cartridges,<br> which have been steadily accumulating on Chicago\u2019s streets,<br> alleys,<br> and pedestrian walkways since the previous evening.\n\n\u201cOur crews have been out there all night trying to make our roadways passable,<br> but given how quickly the handgun and semi-automatic shells have piled up,<br> it\u2019s going to take some time,<br>\u201d DSS commissioner Charles L. Williams told reporters,<br> thanking the public for its patience while crews made their way across the stricken municipality. \u201cWe\u2019re making good headway,<br> but as you can imagine,<br> it\u2019s not an easy job,<br> especially with casings continuing to fall throughout the city.\u201d\n\n\u201cSo unless you have an emergency,<br> we\u2019re urging all citizens to stay put for the time being,<br>\u201d he added. \u201cRight now,<br> it\u2019s just not safe to be out in such treacherous conditions.\u201d\n\nWilliams stated that as casing levels surpassed 12 inches,<br> scores of extra workers from outside the city were called in to help keep pace with the buildup. In addition,<br> numerous dump truck crews have reportedly been tasked with carting off entire trailers full of cartridges from the hardest-hit areas and depositing them in nearby landfills before circling back to pick up more.\n\nAccording to sources,<br> by the morning rush hour,<br> over 300 public and private schools in the Chicago area had been either closed or delayed due to concerns over the large amounts of ammunition covering the city. Citing increased hazards,<br> officials further advised residents to stay off back streets and avoid venturing out at night.\n\n\u201cMan,<br> it\u2019s brutal out there,<br>\u201d said Paul Bergeron,<br> 34,<br> a resident of the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago\u2019s West Side,<br> showing reporters where plows had piled up over nine feet of empty casings in the parking lot of the grocery store across from his apartment. \u201cI ran out to Walgreens,<br> and on my way back,<br> I nearly took a spill trudging through all the .40-caliber shells\u2014I just wanted to get home as quickly as possible.\u201d\n\n\u201cGrowing up in Kansas,<br> I never saw anything nearly like this,<br> but it is what it is,<br>\u201d he continued. \u201cWhen you\u2019re living here,<br> you learn to deal with the bullets and adjust your life accordingly.\u201d\n\nSome locals,<br> however,<br> have complained that the areas receiving priority attention from the city\u2019s plows were not consistent with those that had been most severely affected. In Chicago\u2019s western and southern neighborhoods,<br> for example,<br> eyewitnesses reported that cartridges had risen as high as some first-floor windows,<br> making it difficult for the occupants to even open their front doors.\n\n\u201cThe plows always seem to get to the rich neighborhoods first,<br> that\u2019s for sure,<br>\u201d said Gloria Hawkins,<br> 53,<br> a lifelong resident of the South Side community of Auburn Gresham. \u201cDown here,<br> you have no choice but to go out there into the ammo and shovel your car out yourself. It can be pretty frustrating when things are really bad out,<br> because by the time you finish clearing the walk in front of your house,<br> there\u2019s already an inch or two of fresh bullet casings piling up where you started.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut we\u2019ll get through it,<br> just like we always do,<br>\u201d Hawkins continued. \u201cThis city is very much used to this sort of thing.\u201d\n\n| <center>![onion 1.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/uCouxtLh-onion201.png)<\/center> | <center>![the.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/AxyERpAv-the.png)<\/center> | <center>*America's Finest News Source*<\/center> |\n| - | - | - |\n| <center>[![link.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/ukEv9DdW-link.png) Article Link (https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/city-of-chicago-working-around-clock-to-clear-18-inches-1819579485?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=Twitter)<\/center> | <center>[![home.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/7UWXMVZG-home.png) TheOnion.com (https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/)<\/center> | <center>[![twitter.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/cEQktbEI-twitter.png) @TheOnion (https:\/\/twitter.com\/theonion)<\/center> | \n| <center>![on.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/mRFFidYF-on.png)<\/center> | <center>![oni.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/JGuqUjR3-oni.png)<\/center> | <center>![on.png (https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/mRFFidYF-on.png)<\/center> |",<br>"json_metadata":" \"app\":\"steempeak\/2.2.6\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\",<br>\"tags\":[\"news\",<br>\"community\",<br>\"steem\",<br>\"blog\",<br>\"humor\",<br>\"funny\",<br>\"satire\",<br>\"palnet\",<br>\"neoxian\",<br>\"world\" ,<br>\"users\":[\"TheOnion\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/city-of-chicago-working-around-clock-to-clear-18-inches-1819579485?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=Twitter\",<br>\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\",<br>\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theonion\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/3tHxgElY-image.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/JGuqUjR3-oni.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/uCouxtLh-onion201.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/AxyERpAv-the.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/ukEv9DdW-link.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/7UWXMVZG-home.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/cEQktbEI-twitter.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/files.steempeak.com\/file\/steempeak\/the-onion\/mRFFidYF-on.png\" " | | comment_options | "author":"the-onion",
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