The Housing Report - Our Quest 4 A Permit

It's been over two weeks since I visited the City of Chicago for our building permit. At the time, Ernest told me we should hear something back from the reviewers in one or two weeks as they weren't busy. But sure enough, it's now day 16 and we're still waiting on our architectural review. Nobody answers the phone. And nobody can tell us when we can expect finalization. It's as though they have an open ended job with no deadlines. How would they like it if other services operated with no sense of urgency. I'm sure if they were to go to McDonald's and it took them 30 minutes for a cheeseburger they wouldn't be too happy - that and they wouldn't return. We don't have the latter option.