Old Vs. New

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Part of the residential rehab – new windows

In 1864 Charles Valentine Carpenter established an iron foundry and blacksmith shop called the Illinois Iron & Bolt Company. The company later acquired the Star Manufacturing Company, which produced agricultural machinery. During the 1870s and 1880s German, Swedish, and Polish immigrants came to work in the factories. He persuaded the Chicago & North Western Railroad to extend its tracks from East Dundee to the area and built an iron bridge with his own funds to accommodate the rail line. By 1912 Carpenter’s two companies employed 2,000 people. Star Manufacturing remained in Carpentersville until 1977. Today Otto Engineering Co. uses part of the factory, while the rest is being converted for residential use.

Grant funds benefit community welfare
Eligible uses of the funds include rehabilitation of residential and non-residential structures, public infrastructure, community facilities, owner-occupied housing, public services and economic development. Suggestions that have been sent to Bruce …
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Welcome to Loserville
Many stress the importance of some kind of mixed-income residential presence as a mainstay for downtown business. … "If you look at rehab districts in Seattle and Portland, you see them in areas adjacent to the primary business areas," Wells says.
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Skakel wins new trial in 1975 killing
… probability" would have changed the outcome of the trial; and that he failed to destroy the credibility of the state's main witness in the case, Gregory Coleman, who claimed Skakel confessed to the murder while the two were in a residential drug rehab.
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