Jan 29, 2008 9:57 am US/Central
Comedy Group 'Protests' Repair Of Montrose Avenue
Performance Comedian: New Hole Is 'Defining Characteristic' Of Neighborhood
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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This crater on Montrose Avenue was the consequence of a water main break last week.
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A group of Chicagoans led by a performance comedian is apparently falling in love with the giant hole in the middle of Montrose Avenue – or at least they're trying to convince MySpace users they are.
A water main break left a crater 25-by-50 feet in area and 15 feet deep in the middle of Montrose Avenue near the Brown Line 'L' tracks in the Ravenswood neighborhood. The crater took down lamp posts and left the vaulted sidewalk looking like a staircase.
While some travelers trying to get to the Montrose Brown Line stop see the 15-foot-deep sidewalk divot as a major roadblock, a band of jokesters led by performance comedian Ken Barnard say the hole is a new "defining characteristic" of their North Center neighborhood.
Barnard has started a sardonic online campaign to preserve the hole. The Montrose Avenue hole now even has its own MySpace page, which went from having three to 40 friends over the past three days.
"I am a hole. Support my beauty," the MySpace page reads in its "about me" section. "You wouldn't fill in the Grand Canyon, would you?"
Hole supporters, or "Holy Holers" as Barnard calls them, plan to stage a rally in support of the Montrose Avenue hole at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, with signs and chants to "protest" the repair of the hole.
Organizers write on the MySpace page that they plan to make picket signs reading, "Hole No! We Won't Go!"
The STNG Wire contributed to this report.cbs2chicago.com's Most Popular Pages 
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