Flight Number 268, a Boeing 757 headed from Seattle to New York's JFK International Airport, was diverted to O'Hare and landed about 1:50 p.m., and the front tires and nose gear of the jet ended up in
Flight Number 268, a Boeing 757 headed from Seattle to New York's JFK International Airport, was diverted to O'Hare and landed about 1:50 p.m., and the front tires and nose gear of the jet ended up in
A waiting-to-be-demolished home in Bensenville, Ill. Photo by John Crouch.
Olympic fever is leading suburban communities known for squabbling with
the city to set aside hostilities and declare their support for the
2016 bid. More than half of the 273 municipalities surrounding Chicago,
147 so far, have passed resolutions in support of Chicago's 2016
Olympic bid, according to the Metropolitan Mayor's Caucus.
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Bensenville's lawyers managed to wrangle a 30-day delay out of the same judge who last week granted th City of Chicago permission to demolish more than 500 homes and businesses in the village according to WGN:
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For those into adding a spatial dimension to a story, I've created a custom Google map that contains all the points highlighted so far on the blog along with links back to the relevant images on the Citizen.
Enjoy this other way to get into the Bensenville story.
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Bensenville's Acquisition Area also includes several businesses in addition to the more than 500 homes that have been bought up by the City of Chicago. Most of these businesses are along Irving Park Road and they're just as boarded-up as the homes are. Let's take a look:
All photos by Jing Zhou.
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Looking to get caught up on what's happening in Bensenville?
Look no further than this article by Ben Joravsky in the Chicago Reader published last month. Joravsky breaks down each step leading up to today's court decision. As one might expect from the Reader, his sympathies don't exactly lie with the city...
Highlights from "The Dead Zone":
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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.
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Bensenville, Ill. Photo by Jing Zhou.
Welcome to The Vanishing Village, a new blog on the Windy Citizen blog network that will track the impending demolition of part of the village of Bensenville, Ill. through the O'Hare Modernization Program.
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