With all of the new Chicago police stations falling apart... Chicago Police should do the same thing....
A western suburb is suing the companies that built its police station, saying the "poorly designed and installed" structure has flooded three times since completion in 2009 and is defective.
Northlake, a city of about 12,300 near O'Hare International Airport, alleges in the suit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court that its police headquarters is in need of repairs because of construction and design flaws.
According to the lawsuit, the building first flooded around July 2010, when more than eight inches of sanitary and storm water entered the building's lower level — home to a gun range, locker rooms, an evidence room and document storage — and there was about two inches of water on the first floor.
Mayor Jeffrey Sherwin said valves were replaced after that flood and that the city had prepared to move on.
But the building flooded again in 2011 and for a third time this spring, according to the suit, which also alleges the roof is leaky.
"A building that's flooded three times in three years is kind of extreme," the mayor said.
Twice, Sherwin said, the city had to replace carpeting and cut out drywall. He wasn't immediately able to say how much Northlake had spent cleaning up and rebuilding after the floods, but said he believed additional repairs are needed.
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