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Windy desi it is a free local community directory presenting information about Indian businesses operating in Chicago. Indian community in Chicago is an ultimate Indian business directory useful for everyone. Also, it is the fastest growing online community helping Indians live in Chicago.

Watch what's left of a once distinguished architectural legacy be destroyed because our city is run by idiots. Consider this quote: ""Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Alderman Matlak said. "A lot of people don't want 19th-century buildings.I grew up in a frame house. My bedroom was 8 by 8. People don't want that now." Then - here's a wild idea. Maybe they might try moving into one of the neighborhoods that isn't historic? Which, in Chicago, is almost all of them, now? Speaking as somebody who lives in Chicago, I can report that the difference of opinion between the developers and the preservationists on this is not an honest one; the rate of demolition has not been exaggerated one bit..

Somebody wishes to save one of Chicago's last old movie houses, part of an architectural heritage (Chicago's) in imminent danger of disappearance. That wasn't sarcasm, and yes, it is a big deal. Item found on Furl.

Advocacy Site for those wishing to preserve what remains of Chicago's architectural heritage.