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"In the late 1800s, the downtown Chicago lakefront was a disgusting dumping ground filled with trash, squatters, and makeshift buildings.

The city's elite politicians and greedy developers saw a goldmine.

They hatched a plan to pave over the shoreline, selling off the prime real estate to the highest bidders to build massive private
warehouses, railyards, and mansions.

But one incredibly wealthy businessman looked out his office window and decided to wage an all-out legal war against his own city to stop them.

His name was Aaron Montgomery Ward.

He had just invented the mail-order catalog, making him one of the wealthiest men in America.

Instead of joining the corrupt developers, Ward dug up a nearly forgotten 1836 legal decree that stated the lakefront must remain "forever open, clear and free."

Using his own massive personal fortune, he sued the city of Chicago—and the wealthiest developers in the world—a staggering 70 times.

He was viciously mocked in the newspapers, threatened by politicians, and labeled an enemy of progress.

The brutal legal battles dragged on for 20 years. He fought them all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court four separate times.

He never backed down.

In 1910, the court finally ruled in his favor, permanently banning developers from ever privatizing or blocking the downtown lakefront.

Today, Ward is known as the "Watchdog of the Lakefront."

Next time you are walking through Millennium Park, Grant Park, or the Museum Campus, taking in that unobstructed, breathtaking view of Lake Michigan, you have one stubborn, "hated" billionaire to thank."

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That's why the bears want to leave.  They don't own Soldier Field.  They can't.  I'd rather they move to Arlington Heights (I was born in the hospital there), so they can make the area around it more conducive to a stadium and sports.  There is absolutely nothing by soldier field except museums and open space.

Wo Wo , come on dude you will find a woman soon!

I have to get my laundry room remodeling done, my yard done, my bathroom remodeling done.  I can't be bringing new women over here.  It's functional, but a mess. 

I don't even want to date anyone else, either.  I am probably not even gonna try to date for a long time ... like a year.  I don't really go out, either, unless I am with my kids or family.  So, it's not like I will meet anyone, which is good.  I gotta work on myself and finish this sh1t up.

My son put in a sliding door in my laundry room.  We had to take out dry wall and crown molding.  He has the dry wall back in and taped and spackled.  He needs to fix or replace the crown molding, still, however. 

I want to stack my washer and dryer and put a new tall cabinet next to them stacked.  I want to get a new matching cabinet for my laundry tub and put in new flooring.  It's not a big area.  So it won't cost a ton.  We just gotta finish it. Then finish the next project ... then the next ... then the next .. then the next.  Then, I can worry about dating.

G' nite.

My son put in a sliding door in my laundry room.  We had to take out dry wall and crown molding.  He has the dry wall back in and taped and spackled.  He needs to fix or replace the crown molding, still, however. 

I want to stack my washer and dryer and put a new tall cabinet next to them stacked.  I want to get a new matching cabinet for my laundry tub and put in new flooring.  It's not a big area.  So it won't cost a ton.  We just gotta finish it. Then finish the next project ... then the next ... then the next .. then the next.  Then, I can worry about dating.

G' nite.

Later dude.

And he does get hat trick 3rd goal

Argentina wins 3-0 over Algeria

Pretty impressive
39 years old. Not young to be playing this game.
Played in 6 World Cups scoring in 5 of them.

These 3 goals make 16 total tying for all time record with Miroslav Klose-Germany
Chance to break record Monday vs. Austria

US-Australia match 3 PM Friday with pre game on FOX at 1

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Anonymous, an X account with 7.5 million followers, posted its own video of the scene. "'They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning,'" the account wrote.


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Who. Fucking. Cares.

Why does an adult need to steal diapers? What kind of bullshit society do we live in where baby supplies are something so hard to afford that someone might steal them?..."

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