Chicago pulling trash cans ahead of NATO summit
Chicago city officials say they’ll pull solar-powered garbage cans from around downtown before next month’s NATO summit.
The Chicago Tribune reported that about 40 of the state-of-the-art trash cans have been pulled so far. Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation spokeswoman Anne Sheahan says about 400 of the receptacles are downtown. They will be replaced with wire trash cans that police can patrol more easily. The solar-powered trash cans have lids and aren’t see through.
Sheahan calls it is a “routine public safety measure.”
The NATO summit is scheduled for May 20 to 21.
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