By Amber Tweedie/Good Day DePaul
A beautiful day!
Posted on June 8, 2011
The Week in WTF
By David Rutter
1. North Avenue Beach, WTF?
The city’s new top cop and his new boss know better than to concoct total falsehoods and announce it to the public, don’t they?
Apparently not. The Memorial Day Weekend beach kerfuffle and subsequent ancillary kerfuffles were not related to a thousand gangbangers arriving on our noble shores to mess up whoever was there. That’s the official can’t-pass-the-smell-test story. Pay no attention to the thugs behind the curtain. It was 88 degrees and that’s really hot for some of us.
Posted on June 3, 2011
The Real Reasons Behind The Closing of North Avenue Beach
By The Beachwood Beach Bureau
“Gang loitering, intimidation, flash mobs and violence had nothing to do with the Chicago Police Department’s unprecedented decision to close North Avenue beach on a sultry Memorial Day, Acting Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Wednesday.”
The Beachwood has learned the real reasons the beach was closed:
* Test run for privatization.
* Richard M. Daley wanted the day to himself and his Geiger counter.
* Garry McCarthy got his Rapture date all wrong; thought corpses were about to emerge from hidden graves under the sand.
Posted on June 2, 2011