COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. A suburban Chicago mayor is defending his decision to have city firefighters raze his pool house during a training activity this week.
Country Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch says he wasn’t trying to get free home repairs on Wednesday. Instead, he says he was allowing ten firefighters to get much-needed practice with axes and other equipment.
Welch has a permit to tear down the pool house in the south Chicago suburb and replace it with a garage.
But some of the mayor’s critics say he shouldn’t have used on-the-job city employees for the construction project.
Welch says city residents who need demolition work can contact the fire department.
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