Robert, 62, of Chicago’s Lincoln Park filed three 311 complaints in seven days regarding “intrusive and unfamiliar food aromas” from the apartment next door. The aromas were jollof rice, egusi soup, and jerk chicken with rice and peas. His neighbor, Adaeze Eze, 34, is a food scientist who works at a flavor research lab.
311 dispatched no one. Adaeze subsequently brought Robert a container of food. He accepted it. He has filed no complaints since. He has not apologized. But this is progress.