Wicker Park Wake-Up Call
“Residents of a quiet block in Wicker Park are furious after they were awakened in the wee hours of the morning Monday by a police siren and bullhorn to move their cars for a television filming crew,” Alicia Hauser reports for DNAinfo Chicago
A 46-year-old mother of three who lives in the 1500 block of North Elk Grove Avenue said she “thought it was an air raid,” but the cause for the commotion was actually a new half-hour comedy series, Sirens.
After reparking her car, the woman, who asked not be named, fired off an angry email at 2:23 a.m. to a staffer in Ald. Joe Moreno’s (1st) office and the Chicago Film Office.
“We just got back inside my home from having to move our cars because a police squad came down the street at approximately 1:40 a.m. blasting their siren and announcing that all cars on Elk Grove must be moved or will be ticketed and towed. When we came out, the officer told us it was for filming,” the resident wrote.
Fox 32’s Dane Placko also jumped on the story.
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Posted on October 8, 2013