These signs adorn every house bought up by the city. Photo by Jing Zhou.
While you were reading about Brett Favre here on elsewhere, big news on the Bensenville front today. A DuPage County judge gave the City of Chicago permission to begin tearing down the more than 500 properties it bought in recent years to make way for expansion of O'Hare International Airport.
About a year ago, a circuit judge granted the village of Bensenville a temporary restraining order to halt the demolition.
Meanwhile, in a show of desperation, Bensenville officials held an eleventh-hour press conference in front of a row of boarded up houses calling the project "a runway to nowhere" and claiming the demolition would release toxic chemicals into the environment.
The Tribune and CBS2 both have more details. After a year of holding out hope, it looks like the 30 or so families still living in Bensenville are going to have to hit the road pretty soon.
The Tribune says no start date has been set and that the city still says it'll have construction completed by 2014.
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