{"id":7891,"date":"2017-11-22T22:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2017-11-22T22:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:16:46","slug":"chicagos-street-sweeping-season-extended-to-december-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=7891","title":{"rendered":"Chicago&#8217;s Street Sweeping Season Extended to December 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<table id=\"content_LETTER.BLOCK33\" class=\"BlockMargin\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ArticleText\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"left\">\n<div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Source: \u00a0Alderman Reilly Reports 11\/22\/17<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation (DSS) will be extending its annual street sweeping season to\u00a0<strong>December 8, 2017<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Chicago street sweeping season typically ends each year on the Friday prior to Thanksgiving. The extended sweeping operations will\u00a0 allow crews to continue cleaning alleys, streets and catch basins until December\u00a08, when the Department transitions to its\u00a0winter sweeping operations. During the\u00a0winter, approximately 20 sweepers remain available citywide to assist with major\u00a0cleanups along Chicago&#8217;s arterial routes.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">In 2017, milder conditions allowed DSS to continue street cleaning along curb lanes, center lanes and viaducts during the winter months. In January, DSS swept approximately 4,400 miles compared to 275 miles in January 2016. In February, DSS swept 6,000 miles compared to 1,500 miles in February 2016.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"AppleMailSignature\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: \u00a0Alderman Reilly Reports 11\/22\/17 The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation (DSS) will be extending its annual street sweeping season to\u00a0December 8, 2017. The Chicago street sweeping season typically ends each year on the Friday prior to Thanksgiving. The extended sweeping operations will\u00a0 allow crews to continue cleaning alleys, streets and catch basins until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}