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• Commented on Power Restoration A "Multiday" Event
  This one is so bad that the automated ComEd system won't even give an estimated restoration time. Has anyone gotten any specific details from them about DuPage county?...
• Commented on All Attention on Achatz
  Did I ever tell you about the time Grant took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Achatz takes me to a vacant lot and...
• Commented on More on Palatine
  I think what Chicago D is saying is that *nobody* is getting anything out of the county these days, Chicago included. If a huge tax hike is needed across 5 million people to fund a hospital and a police force,...
• Commented on More on Palatine
  The border towns like Palatine, AH, and Barrington have had this coming for a while. They overbuilt their downtowns with TIF districting or, in the case of Barrington, turned away commercial development so that malls like Deer Park in Lake...
• Commented on Fiddle Me This: What Happened to the Trib's Comments?
  Because they can't think that far back to when this accident happened. They see all the safety precautions that Metra takes now and take it for granted that it's always been that way. It wasn't that way when Barton got...