Overflowing Dumpsters Create Rat Nightmare In Logan Square. Could Weekend Ticketing Help?
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LOGAN SQUARE — For months, Eli Albert has been on a crusade to stop a rat infestation in his alley and get city workers to ticket building owners whose dumpsters overflow on weekends. The quest has been in vain thus far — so, he s trying a new approach. The Logan Square resident recently launched a website and campaign called Ticket On Sundays to put pressure on city crews to ticket more owners of overflowing dumpsters with residents help. Albert s campaign also urges city workers to count neighbor photos of overflowing garbage as evidence to ticket the owners in lieu of personally observing them. He s asking Chicagoans citywide to sign his petition to ask the city to enforce its own garbage rules, he said. It just seems like the overflowing dumpsters are the source of the infestations, Albert said. There s always going to be rats in Chicago, but this is the infestation problem — we re just giving them this buffet all the time, every weekend, and that s enough to fee