Flossmoor officials, unable to make cars smaller or streets bigger, are seeking to restrict parking to one side of most residential by-ways in the village.
It’s all a matter of public safety, they say. The mathematics of Flossmoor streets, and the vehicles that traverse them, point toward alarming situations in which fire trucks, police cars and snow plows cannot get where they need to go during emergency situations.
“We’re not getting through,” Flossmoor Fire Chief Chris Sewell said…


