Clarence Page:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped1003pageoct03,0,5013041.column
IFJ is the wonderful nonprofit group of crack lawyers who spend their own big, big bucks fighting eminent domain cases against tinpot local governments.
One reader comments he is a retiree from state and local government, and advises never to trust them because they always do what is in their own self-interest. I presume he is speaking of paid persons.
Did you see this in the Landmark. One home stood up to the barnraising in Hollywood. Interesting their government didn't threaten these homeowners with eminent domain:
http://www.rblandmark.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3037&TM=54014.12
Brookfield library says goodbye to Hollywood
With one holdout standing fast, plan won't work
By BOB SKOLNIK
The Brookfield Public Library Board decided last week to rule out the controversial Arden and Washington site as a possible location for a new library. The decision came after a consultant told the library board that it was not possible to build a library of the size that the library is seeking on the four lots that the library can acquire there.
The library had initially targeted three homes along Arden Avenue and another on Washington Avenue in the village's Hollywood section. But the owners of one of the homes the library had targeted ...have come out against the library's plan. The library tried to overcome that by agreeing to purchase another home on Washington Avenue, but last week the library's consultant told the board that without the lot at 3511 Arden Ave., it would be impossible to build a 40,000 square foot library.
The library's desire to purchase five homes along Arden and Washington had generated loud opposition from many Hollywood residents this summer, but the library went ahead with steps to begin to buy up the property anyway.
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