Chicago Cesspool

More Bureaucracy to Solve Burdensome Bureaucracy? - Chicago Public Radio

Getting a building permit in Chicago is so complex that it’s spawned a cottage industry of people called expediters. They help real estate developers, contractors and home owners get permits. But recent allegations of bribe taking in the zoning and buildings departments have aldermen wondering if they should regulate expediters. The proposal to do so has jumped from a few pages to more than twenty-five and that concerns alderman Helen Schiller.

So instead of making it less complex and easy enough for a regular citizen to take advantage of, since that is why they are paying taxes to begin with, Chicago is adding more bureaucracy by licensing the cottage industry they created with their ineptness.

Pretty soon the only legal way to get a building permit in Chicago will be through these city licensed “expediters” who will be hand picked by the Chicago politicians that they generously throw campaigns donations to. Bribes today, campaign donations tomorrow. Must everything be a racket in Chicago?