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Archive for December, 2005

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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
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Why aren’t there more movie theaters on Randall Road? I know movie theatres are having a tough time right now, but you’d think that with all those new subdivisions there would be a healthy market for movies around here. Unfortunately there’s no Randall Road equivalent of South Barrington’s AMC 30, as far as I […]

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Monday, December 19th, 2005
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New details emerging about the concert hall. I suppose including condominiums in the plan is not a bad idea, but what is this about a children’s discovery center? This is what they call scope creep. Scrap it.
And still nothing about a design competition. Sad.

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Friday, December 16th, 2005
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I dislike the way Stony Creek is laid out. It squats right on top of the existing forest preserve/open space. Wouldn’t it be great if all of that was one large forest preserve?

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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
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One of the bizarre things the city did was to commission an economic impact study for the proposed concert hall before the design of the building–or even the designer–was known. How can the economic impact of an unknown design be ascertained? The consultants can be working with one of two possible assumptions: 1) […]