Category: illinois
By nobugsonme on Oct 23, 2007 in Red Roof Inn, Rockford, Winnebago County Health Department, bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, health, health department, hotels, illinois, motels, multi-unit buildings, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment: single-family | 7 Comments
According to the Rockford Register Star, the Winnebago County Health Department in Rockford, Illinois shut down 56 of 108 rooms in a Red Roof Inn in Rockford, due to bed bugs. The Health Department came to inspect after a customer collected samples of bed bugs from the bed in a room he stayed in:
Health […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 5, 2007 in Halcyon House, SROs, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, cincinnati, colorado, costs, curbside, doctors and nurses, elderly, furniture, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, hotels, ignorance, illinois, institutions, kill them now we're doomed, low-income housing, motels, multi-unit buildings, ohio, public education, public health, public housing, rage, schools, shelters, signs and symptoms, slumlords, social services, spread, tenants, tools and weapons, tossing stuff out, treatment, usa, washington, washington DC | 6 Comments
According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 15, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, chicago, illinois, itch mites, news, other causes of itching, usa | 1 Comment
Good news for some “newbites” in Chicago. If you suspect bed bugs, but have no evidence yet, and you’ve been spending time in area forest preserves, you may have itch mites. No, they’re no picnic, of course, but they would be a darn sight better experience than bed bugs.
There’s currently an outbreak there, […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 1, 2007 in bedbugs, best practices, consumer, flea market, furniture, illinois, news, signs and symptoms, treatment, treatment: single-family, usa | 2 Comments
CBS2 news in Chicago reports that a family in St. Charles, Illinois, believes they got bed bugs from a $10 flea market nightstand. First the little girl, then mom Amanda Thor and the baby were all bitten by bed bugs. (Click on the top right to view the video.)
Less than a week after […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 29, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, heat, illinois, multi-unit buildings, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, thermal, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment in institutions, treatment: single-family, usa | 7 Comments
Remember this Pest Control Technology Online article from January, which we blogged a few months ago?
You may recall how Dr. Michael Potter comments on thermal treatments for bed bugs:
STRUCTURAL HEATING. Elevating the temperature within buildings has been used to eradicate pests ranging from grain insects to termites. Structural and containerized heat treatments are also being […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 7, 2007 in ABCDC, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, bombs, boston, conferences, doing your own pest control, foggers, government, illinois, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new mexico, new york, news, social services, spread, tenants, usa, workplace | 4 Comments
A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 26, 2007 in apartment reviews, apartmentratings.com, bed bug registries, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, chicago, housing laws, illinois, landlords, lawsuits, legal, new york, nyc, ontario, real estate, toronto, usa | 4 Comments
Here in NYC, many tenants won’t call 311, the city hotline, to report bed bugs, no matter how bad they get or how poorly the landlord is dealing with the situation. Elsewhere, people report fear of reporting their bed bug problems to building inspectors or public health, even though in most localities, landlords are […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 16, 2007 in Queens, alberta, bed bug bites, bed bugs, bedbugs, blackpool, brazil, british columbia, california, canada, colorado, denmark, england, florida, gibraltar, harrow, hungary, iceland, illinois, iowa, ireland, kentucky, manitoba, maryland, massachusetts, meta, michigan, mississippi, nevada, new jersey, new york, north dakota, nottingham, ohio, oklahoma, ontario, oregon, pennsylvania, quebec, san francisco, sheffield, spread, texas, uk, usa, utah, virginia, washington | 7 Comments
You can click here to see a map of the last 90 or so visitors to the site. It will look different from what I describe below, because I am writing about what I saw there about 4-5 hours ago. Now it’s almost midnight in New York, and the Aussies are starting to […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 10, 2007 in Presidential Towers, bed bug class action suit, bed bug disclosure, bed bug lawsuit, bed bugs, bed bugs Chicago, bed bugs Presidential Towers, bed bugs and tenants, bedbugs, chicago, illinois, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, treatment, usa | 17 Comments
A fourth person is suing Presidential Towers in Chicago: this time, on the grounds that Presidential Towers knew the neighbors had bugs, did not tell the tenant, who then got them.
This issue is relevant to all tenants with bed bugs. If landlords had to tell neighbors when one tenant had bed bugs, it […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 6, 2007 in Presidential Towers, Presidential Towers bed bugs, bed bug lawsuits, bed bugs, bedbugs, celebrities, chicago, health, illinois, lawsuits, multi-unit buildings, new york, news, real estate, real estate and bed bugs, treatment, usa | 2 Comments
Chicago’s Presidential Towers has been sold for $470 million. This announcement comes only days after the 3 tenants filed a lawsuit against the building, which has four 49-story buildings, and 2,300 residences. It sold for $20 million more than experts expected; I wonder if bed bug homeowners can expect the same value-enhanced […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 3, 2007 in Presidential Towers, bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, canada, chicago, illinois, institutions, legal, news, treatment, usa | 3 Comments
Three tenants are suing Presidential Towers over bed bugs, according to the Chicago Tribune. Presidential Towers is an enormous complex–almost like a little village, with multiple high-rises, with its own little mall and a full-size health club inside.
Exterminators began work on the problem in January, but the bedbug infestation persists, […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 13, 2006 in bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, illinois, information and help, new york, signs and symptoms, usa | 4 Comments
Here’s an old thread (April 2004) in a forum for people who frequent thrift stores, started by someone who thinks she saw bed bugs in two Manhattan thrift shops, during a short span of time:
Twice recently while I have been thrifting in NYC, once on 23rd Street and once on lower 2nd Avenue, I have […]
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