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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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The near northwest suburbs have enlisted the dead in their battle against O'Hare expansion: two cemeteries lay in the path of the expansion, and removing them would violate federal law and the Constitution, opponents say, so they're suing the city (again). Here's a little background on the cemeteries, compiled by the Bensenville Library.

 
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