Newspaper Involvement

Two community newspapers were involved in finally getting justice for Fernando.  One was the Austin Weekly and the other the Windy City Word.

The link below leads to the article that was presented in the Windy City Times.  It is a pdf file that requires a pdf reader.

Windy City Word

According to Fernando Mendez, who was treated at Northwestern University Medical Center, the cause of all his problems was the environment where he worked. It was the 3200 S. Kedzie facility, under the direction of the Department of Streets and Sanitation, led by Alfanso "Al" Sanchez.

Sanchez was taken to Federal Court by Wayne Strnad, the Citizens for Community Action, Inc. and Bruce Randazzo. Afterwards, he was indicted by the U.S. Attorney.

As of March 6, 2009 Sanchez is now being tried in the 7th District Federal Court.

You might like to look at the category Streets and Sanitation located to the right of this information.

Here is can see the rat poison sitting by the wall.

Here is the street sign showing the exact location of this poorly maintained facility.

We don't want to talk about this electrical violation. This too was reported but nothing was done. The Bureau of Electricity is also a division of the Department of Streets and Sanitation. Do you think they would write themself a ticket? What if it was you?