Jim O'Donnell says with Arlington Park's demolition, the Bears remain welcome to develop the increasingly barren 326 acres that once did business as Arlington Park. That is, as long as they quite affordably also move forward and pay their own way.
People who sob at garage sales.How could it not be now?FRIDAY HAD ENOUGH of a funereal feeling going already.Unseasonable gloom mixed with spinning shadows.
And not I, said the ghost of Jim Thompson, the regional reaper for the Nixon Justice Department who later manhandled 14 years as governor of Illinois. A dead racetrack will never come back to haunt you.That could be because what Arlington Park was shall now and forever remain in the senses of the beholder.A sports entertainment alternative to be savored once or twice each year.
People -- who if full truth be known -- are down a couple of homes in Inverness and more than a few relationships because they were going to"beat the races."Awkward. Stumbling. Pedigreed to a modern reign of annual crumble.Their burnt orange-and-blue shall never see the garish domed sun of a Sunday in Arlington Heights if their will toward profitability and clumsy tries at civic intimidation don't prevail.
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