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Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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A five-alarm fire near Garfield Park yesterday destroyed one of the few Jenny buildings left in the city. Designed by turn-of-the-century architect William LaBaron Jenny, there were plans to transform the building into something special. The blaze appeared to start in the repair area of the building and is believed to be accidental in nature. "It was the one building in the park district that was a Jenny building. It was beautiful. It used to be a stable building and we were going to turn it into this wonderful education center and we had big plans for it", Schwerner said, of the Park District.

 
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