Photo: This Boulevard Is Not Named After Dennis Hastert, We Assure You

By Mae Rice in News on May 4, 2016 5:19PM

Now here is an extremely specific street sign.

Redditor rektum_expander (sorry) shot the photo above in Naperville, but according to the Daily Herald, the boulevard in question runs through parts of Naperville and Bolingbrook—and has been causing the mayors of both cities headaches since former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was accused of molesting children as a Yorkville high school wrestling coach.

Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar told the Daily Herald that he was "overwhelmed" by a growing deluge of emails expressing "general disgust" that the street was named after Hastert, who was recently sentenced to prison for federal bank fraud. Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico told the paper he was getting a "fair amount" of confused emails, too.

"It's not a joke at all," Claar told the Daily Herald. "The charges and conviction are very serious."

Currently, the mayors have posted two of the above 14-word signs along Hassert Boulevard, and they have plans for three more in the works. The text of the sign is also the first thing you see on the Village of Bolingbrook's website. (Naperville's website, meanwhile, centers visually on American flags.)

Hastert, 74, is said to have sexually abused teenage boys while working as a high school wrestling coach in Yorkville, IL, decades ago. Last week, Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison for bank fraud, which he allegedly committed to pay for the continued silence of one of his victims.

The Hassert family, on the other hand, has lived in Will County since the 1860s, according to the Daily Herald. Members include Brent Hassert, a former state representative, and assorted other public servants.