Susana Mendoza, Chicago City Clerk, Bugged Out About City Hall Insects (VIDEO)

Story by Chuck Kramer, courtesy of the Windy City Times

Susana Mendoza, Chicago's recently elected city clerk, had a rude surprise waiting for her as she settled into the job after being sworn in last spring. The basement, where most of her staff works and city records are stored, is home to a thriving population of huge cockroaches.

There is a weekly Friday spraying by an exterminator. When the staff reports for work on Mondays, they find themselves crunching across the bodies of these dead insects that Mendoza characterizes as "Acapulco" cockroaches. "It's almost inexcusable to expect people to work in conditions like this, surrounded by vermin and breathing air tainted with the insecticide toxins," she said recently. "It's an old building (built in 1911) but there's no excuse for this."

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