Freakin' Cheeseheads!

By Rachelle Bowden in News on Jun 8, 2004 12:10PM

Chicago's beaches are in jeopardy of being closed because our neighbors to the north have been dumping raw sewage into Lake Michigan. U.S. Representative mark Kirk (R-IL) says ""The state of Wisconsin, and especially the city of Milwaukee, is a terrible environmental steward of Lake Michigan." Mayor Daley says that Chicago has taken great pains to clean up the lake and implement recycling only to see Milwaukee dump tons of sewage into it. Sewage that flows down to us. Milwaukee, who has been trying to save some money on their sewer system, has repeatedly dumped sewage into the lake. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Distict has actually acknowledged that they dumped 4.6 billion gallons of sewer overflows into waterways that flow into Lake Michigan dury heavy May rains.

Chicagoist thinks we should take away their beer, cheese and brats until they stop dumping their crap, literally, into our lake where it's likely to wind up on our sandles when we next go to the beach.