On WLS Radio today and later on ABC7 Chicago's 5pm news. Mayor Daley is not happy with his Super of Police said something about him being an alarmist and having a bunker mentality, not to mention a few other not so nice comments. Seems the Head of the Chicago Police Dept. thinks his officers should prepare themselves and their families for 2 weeks worth of problems. He sent a memo out to 15,000 officers to Prepare their family with things like.... 2 gallons of water per person for 2 weeks, non-pershisble foods, cash for 2 weeks, blankets, batteries, etc...... Anyone else hear this today. I'd sure like to see what the orginial memo said exactly.

-- chgo (andso@begins.chgo), November 24, 1999

Answers

dumb mayor

-- chicago is toast (cop@super.GIgood), November 24, 1999.

Got Marmalade?

-- squid (Itsdark@down.here), November 24, 1999.

Squid: keep a proper focus on the important things...THINK CHOCOLATE!

-- Psychotic (y2k@doom&gloom.com), November 24, 1999.

Having lived in Chicago for six years during Daley's reign, which was helped in by the terrible, phoney, Daley-and-the-press persecution of the family of Jacquelyn Dowaliby, pretending they believed that the stepfather murdered the child, when they had the real murderer in their sights (see recent expose movie of this debacle that ruined a family already ravaged by the murder of their child!), and knowing this mayor's recent push to ban guns in Chicago AND his rallying of the mayors of all the major US cities to follow suit in a big meeting...is it any wonder that this career politician, son of a career politician, is persecuting his Chief of Police for being a GI and wanting to protect his forces?!?!

Right on, Superintendent of Police!!!!

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), November 24, 1999.

Add 7-11 in Chicago to the list of places NOT to be on rollover.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), November 24, 1999.

Chicago Sun-Times article (brief)

-- David L (bumpkin@dnet.net), November 24, 1999.

Water and Chicago from a January 1999 Chicago Tribune article. Did they finish?

http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV- 9901010066,00.html

[snip]

Water purification plants and pumping stations in Chicago and the suburbs have not yet been checked to make sure their electronic controls will operate on Jan. 1, 2000.

[snip]

"Anyone who says they are ahead of the game on embedded (chips) is lying," said Liz Fieweger, who is heading the City of Chicago's hunt for microchips that will stop working in 2000. "The whole world should have been doing this two years ago.

"In some ways, we are behind. But everybody is."

[snip]

Ask Chicago's Y2K boss what single issue worries her most, and she'll answer in a snap.

"Water."

Chicago's water purification plants not only serve millions of people in the city, but pipe drinking water from Lake Michigan to dozens of suburbs as far away as DuPage and Will Counties.

Pumping, filtration and chlorination is governed by systems built years ago and controlled in part by equipment that contains embedded microchips.

"It is the only place where we have process-control equipment, and that is an area of the biggest problems," Elizabeth Boatman said.

It wasn't until mid-December that Chicago hired the consulting company to go in and inventory the devices at the city's filtration plants and 12 pumping stations.

According to the work plan, the consultants are to finish their inventory and analysis in March. Only then will it be clear how big or small the problem really is.

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), November 25, 1999.

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-- Old (timer@helping.out), November 25, 1999.