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I read the post about being Chicago without going to the link and reading it. It's actually not bordering Chicago, it's Island Lake in McHenry County. Might work out a bit differently, but I doubt it. I still wish the guy luck just the same. I shouldn't have opened my big mouth before I read the whole thing though, but I did. And you're right about Daley, never loses. Heck, there's all kinds of stories about Daley and his connections. The one where one of his top aids bought a golf course down around the Beecher and Peotone area because just knew thats where the 3rd airport that hasn't happened yet was going, so figured would make $$$ off of insider information. And the Daley brothers buying up farm land between Manteno and Wilmington before that, because they were sure that was where the 3rd airport was going to go, but that didn't happen. Jane Byrn and Ed Vordolyak buying up, owning, and leasing the land for building at the 4 corners of the Manteno/Interstate 57 exit because they knew something about it ahead of time too. I take it you live in Illinois? I used to own in Romeoville, still work in Illinois, but now own and live back in Indiana. I'll tell you what, eminent domain. Yep, all heard of it, but never saw it in action until I bought in Illinois decades back. A couple of examples. A guy owned a farm in unincorporated Aurora just on the west side of Rt59 and some developer wanted his property but he wouldn't sell. The city of Naperville jumped Rt59, annexed the guy's farm and condemned it, then sold it to the developer whom built a strip mall on it. That was about 1990ish, before the Supreme Court ruled that they could do that a couple of years ago. Another good one was a 275 acre farm along Rt34 Ogden in Lisle that had been in the family and farmed for like a century, until Lisle condemned it for development at about the same time. And as I recall, think it was Walmart, but might've been Miers that wanted to buy it from Lisle way back then, but was turned down because Lisle didn't want their kind of clientele hanging out and shoping in Lisle...I swear it, remember reading it in the paper at the time. Heck Virgil, Illinois has some of the best farm land I've ever seen once I get outside of surrounding collar counties near Cook, counties like Kendell, Grundy, Livingston, Ford, Kankakee, Vermillion and further out, but its that stuff coming out of Cook (Chicago) that messes things up. Illinois is one mostly huge big farm state, and I do mean some BIG beautiful farms. But them dang collar counties like Dupage and their funny ways really burned me on the idea of staying.
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