City Hall should license general contractors, add dozens ofbuilding inspectors and require manufacturers to seal untreatedconcrete block to stem an epidemic of shoddy construction that hasleft homeowners in the lurch, top city officials said Tuesday.
Building Commissioner Mary Richardson-Lowry and Ald. Bernard Stone(50th), chairman of the Committee on Buildings, proposed alegislative crackdown in response to a Chicago Sun-Times story aboutcrumbling condominiums.
The story disclosed that thousands of new homes and lofts-theproduct of Chicago's extraordinary building boom-will need tens ofmillions of dollars in repairs because of shoddy work and use ofcheap materials …
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