Wednesday, March 7, 2012

City offers reforms after E2/porch debacle

After the tragedies of the E2 nightclub and the Wrightwood porch collapse accidents, Mayor Richard M. Daley Thursday unveiled a series of building reforms he hopes will prevent these tragedies from happening again.

The safety and construction reforms, he said, will not only improve the way the city regulates, inspects, permits and licenses buildings but disobeying the law could bar contractors from doing business with the city.

While the mayor believes if building owners had obeyed the law these two incidents would not have occurred, he reminded landlords, owners and tenants that they too have a daily responsibility to keep their properties safe.

However, Daley …

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