Emmett Street lot improvements, a day late, and done

Things didn’t go exactly as planned for the Emmett Street parking lot maintenance.  But they are done, a day late and a dollar short I don’t know and I don’t care at what cost (since Chicago Parking Meters, LLC/LAZ Parking is picking up the tab per the city’s 75 year contract with them).

There was some confusion with regard to what exactly consitutes north and south in a lot that’s oriented northwest/southeast, both by LAZ and by drivers.  They ended up splitting the maintenance work on a vertical, rather than horizontal axis as first explained.  They changed the dates mid-stream so that the switch between south and north (or west and east, if you like) was made a day later than planned and the completion date was a couple of days later.  There were some straggler drivers that didn’t make the shift in time.  But in the end they completed the project a day later than originally planned, a day earlier than the revised plan.

More on the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival

Christy Prahl of the Neighborhood Watch blog (see Blogging from Logan Square in right column) has a thoughtful piece on the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival of a couple of weekends ago.  It’s constructed around the pre-festival Chicago Reader article, “Who is Logan Square?”.

While I had previously linked to the Reader article in A Mention – Attention in the right column on this blog, I did not address it in a separate post as I did not want to particularly call attention to it prior to the festival and prior to folks sharing their thoughts here, hoping their experiences and thoughts might be independent of any influence from reading the article.