Case Date:

6/3/2024

My neighborhood (Near West Side) has been experiencing a very intense burning trash smell most nights for the past two months. This has been an ongoing issue for the past two years that I’ve lived here, but it has intensified. It causes me headaches and forces me to keep my windows closed and waste energy running my air conditioning. It’s not possible to walk around outside; this only happens at night. There are no neighbors or homeless people burning trash (I have walked around and looked, including on nearby train tracks). I have smelled this same smell coming from JB Salvage. Please help us! This is definitely causing long term health effects for this whole neighborhood.

Case Date:

8/2/2016

Overgrown in front and backyard. House looks abandoned.

Case Date:

5/2/2017

Over growth, abandoned house, frig on back porch that is unplugged with food inside.

Case Date:

5/14/2018

excess growth and abandoned house

Case Date:

9/12/2023

The trash collectors threw the garbage can in my garden. My neighbors, who enjoy my garden, took this photo and sent it to me. They were upset to see the flowers and herbs on front wall crushed. These plantings are for the enjoyment of the neighborhood and to support pollinators.

Case Date:

12/31/2020

Backyard being used as dumpsite

Case Date:

7/12/2022

Bamboo untrimmed growing over 20 ft tall, stalks drooping into neighbor's yard.

Case Date:

2/20/2023

Golden bamboo was noticed today and is in the photo in elevate on this corner of Elm and W 6th St

Case Date:

3/29/2018

Overgrown bamboo at 1002 W 6 St and Elm bending into sidewalks and street obstructing traffic. Bird droppings covering the sidewalk. The invasive plant has encroached on neighboring property where we live at 1004, so we are having to engage removal services and eventually install impermeable barriers at our expense. The back yard of 1002 is overgrown also, feral cats, possum and a skunk have been sited or smelled in a fallen shed which has not been cleared out. The Elm Street side of 1002 is full of debris and overgrowth and there is an unattended stagnant water feature where we hear frogs in the summer (which do attract copperhead snakes). Someone does seem to be inhabiting the house, though we know that the owner of the house does not reside in Indiana presently.

Case Date:

2/13/2024

These people continue to have the trashiest front yard in the neighborhood. Time for yet another warning to clean it up, please. Thanks.