If you have a death wish, or are hoping for a rear ender to earn an insurance payday on your clunker, try driving up and down North Sheridan in the northbound lanes. Not only is street construction limiting you to one lane near the critical turn into Wal-Mart, now that the new Carl's Jr. is open, there is also traffic exiting and entering just beyond the traffic cones, creating all sorts of peril. It has long amazed me someone hasn't been killed pulling into Wal-Mart. You'll note that traffic entering Wal-Mart and the main entrance has the right-of-way over those turning into the parking lot's main exit. But many turning into Wal-Mart treat it like a four-way stop, often backing traffic up into Sheridan Road. It's an invitation to a T-bone accident.

Speaking of lane blockages, Arts For All is limiting access to the Water Department, Library and Police Department. I have to hand it to whoever erected those tents. I was stunned they all stood strong through our Wednesday thunderstorms. Speaking of those storms, this is turning into the best spring I've seen in years, perhaps even better than last year. We were a little too inundated last year.