WICKER PARK — Some restaurant owners along Division Street will need to restore damaged tree pits and protective fences if they want to offer an outdoor sidewalk cafe this spring, a Wicker Park alderman said on Monday.
"The proper thing is, if you have your dirt [over a tree] covered, remove it. If fencing around the tree was removed, put it back in," Ald. Joe Moreno (1st) said to about 24 business owners at a Monday morning meeting at The Bedford, 1612 W. Division St.
On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Alisa Hauser says some trees have been destroyed in recent years to make way for more outdoor seating:
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