07-05-2009, 10:46 AM
A City the size of Waukegan, with its geographic location, diverse population and potential, needs to have a nationwide search for the position of city planner. To keep Vukovich in that position is to keep the city of Waukegan light years behind the rest of the cities and towns in northern IL and especially Lake Co. There is no direction in the city, except to fund projects of the politically connected. $40 Million dollars devoted to development, new planning for the 120 corridor and yet no structural changes to city government that would allow those developments to be used for the bettement of the city. And now, to keep more of the same, with increases in crime and more property owners leaving the city. It appears that Waukegan, once a great city with a strong infrastructure has become a sinking ship and there is nothing to be done to save it. Consider that it is the 7th(?) largest city in IL and one of the most impoverished and crime riddled, and nothing has been done to change that. Oh, wait citywide layoffs are the answer...