Suburb Plans To Raze Entire Downtown And Build A New One

Lake Zurich, IL, plans to create an entirely new downtown district within an existing town after razing the existing one.

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January 23, 2004, 2:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Lake Zurich officials are proposing to rebuild the village's entire downtown district, a project that experts say could be unprecedented... The village and a group of developers would buy and raze dozens of buildings and replace them with three- and four-story mixed-use structures designed to give the feel of a quaint resort town."

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FULL STORY: Suburb has plans to rebuild its downtown

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 in The Chicago Tribune

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