http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2068294Oh my.
ChandlerJr (370 posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:01 PM
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Bodies Doubled Up Again At Cook County Morgue
Okay, now here are some shovel ready jobs right there in Chicago! Thank you Mayor Rahm!
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Cook County Morgue is once again double-stacking bodies on trays in its cooler.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller reports, at least 30 trays are being stacked on the cooler at the county Medical Examiner’s Office, 2121 W. Harrison St.
“We should’ve had a burial in September but we didn’t,†said county Medical Examiner Dr. Nancy Jones.
There are several reasons why no burial happened, Jones said.
One reason is that the plain wood coffins for unclaimed bodies, which the Medical Examiner’s office calls burial shells, may be on back order.
Not to mention someone should be making those caskets faster.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/10/06/bodies-doubled-u...
NBachers (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:03 PM
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1. I wonder what each one of those plain wood coffins costs
Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:18 PM
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5. Taking into consideration that we are talking about Chicago...it wouldn't surprise me if they went for $100,000 or so.
Uh huh.
That's a legacy of Don, the grouchy old primitive, who's voted the straight Democrat machine party line since 1972, expecting that when he kicks off, the machine'll take good care of him, maybe even a gold-plated bronze casket.
Too bad for Don.
But it's his own fault.
mopinko (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:05 PM
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2. rahm doesn't have ANYTHING to do with this.
this is cook county, not chicago government.
JackintheGreen (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:33 PM
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6. Cook County IS Chicago
Chicago is the county seat and unquestionably the center of the Chicagoland area.
In the 80s and 90s when anybody downstate mentioned Cook County they meant Chicagoland. If they only meant the city they said Chicago.
I guarantee the morgue has bodies from Chicago, not just from friggin Berwin and Oak Lawn.
mopinko (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:50 PM
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8. all of chicago is in cook county. government, however has not connection whatsoever. the morgue is not rahm's problem. he couldn't fix it if he wanted to. what do you want him to do, build pine boxes in his basement?
IT IS NOT HIS JOB.
OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:09 PM
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3. Why not just cremate or liquify the bodies?
Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:16 PM
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4. Cook Co. has a new board president with a lot of potential but she's got a lot of cleanup to do.
The past president, Todd Stroger, inherited the job from his father (somehow) and made an even bigger mess of things than his old man. The money for the backorder coffins probably is padding the pension of one of Todd's relatives he slipped into the payroll.
I'm no fan of Rahm but as mopinko points out, this isn't a Chicago issue, it's a county issue.
And who's been running Cook County since God was a boy?
alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:35 PM
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7. Meanwhile, the Trib criticizes them for donating unclaimed bodies too quickly
Yeah, if somebody doesn't claim a body in two weeks, they move it to the medical schools.
Well, it seems to me that two weeks is a pretty long period of time not to claim a loved one's body...
mopinko (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:52 PM
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9. really.
if you end up in the cook county morgue, chances are you didn't have much in the way of loved ones.
let them do some good.
madrchsod (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:52 PM
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10. state of illinois cutback the funding for indigent burials.....
And why's that, the cutbacks?
Could it be that in times of spending cutbacks, paying the Democrat machine bosses graft is a higher priority than paying for basic essential social services?
1776Forever (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 02:59 PM
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11. Where are the coffins made? Just wondering.
NBachers (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-06-11 10:19 PM
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12. Yeah, specifications and a wood shop, and you've got a steady business
surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-07-11 07:43 AM
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14. Did they choose a new supplier for those coffins recently?
On what basis did they choose? Was somebody getting kick-backs from this contract?
Sure.
B Calm (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-07-11 07:52 AM
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15. A high school wood shop could make the caskets cheap. .
This is Don's Cook County, though; the cost of caskets doesn't matter.
Just so the Democrat machine bosses get theirs
first.
