Results tagged “complaints”

If you utilize CTA buses to commute to work (or even around town for other reasons), it's probably happened to you before: your heart leaps at the sight of an arriving bus, you grip your CTA card for entrance, and then your heart crashes into your stomach as the bus zooms right on by, the driver not giving you and your fellow potential passengers a second glance. In the first quarter of 2009, the CTA received 468 complaints about such incidents, referred to as "pass ups." Always ones to put a positive spin on things, the CTA points out that more than 600 "pass up" complaints had been made each of the previous two quarters. Second place in total complaints for the first quarter of 2009 went to rude drivers/conductors.

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis has relented and given a judge a list of all Chicago Police officers who have had five complaints (or more) cited against them since 2000. A judge hearing a lawsuit against a CPD officer for excessive force had originally asked Weis for the list, but Weis refused to hand it over, claiming it would harm the department; Mayor Daley backed him up. Yesterday, though, a federal judge held Weis in contempt of court and ordered he hand over the list before the morning of Monday, March 9.

For Three Floyds fanatics, it's the equivalent of a high holy day. DarkLord Day is the one day of the year where the venerable Munster, Indiana brewery releases their highly anticipated Russian Imperial Stout. Craft beer fans from around the world travel to either buy or barter from their personal collections for a bottle of the prized beer. Fans of good ales get to meet each other, sample each others wares, and get to put actual faces to online avatars.