“The City’s management of residential street resurfacing is an infrastructure version of the ‘two Chicagos’ trend that OIG sees increasingly in its examination of municipal services and programs,” inspector general Joe Ferguson wrote in a statement last week. His office has for years recommended that the city take street resurfacing out of the aldermanic menu program and hand it over to Chicago Department of Transportation. CDOT already has jurisdiction over resurfacing major arterial roadways—thoroughfares like Ashland or Grand Avenues.
