Gapers Block has ceased publication.

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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Once upon a time, many of Lincoln Park's infants were manufactured at the Rubens Baby Factory at Racine and Fullerton right next to DePaul University. Unfortunately, the demand has shrunk as the industry moved to China and India and interest in home-made "boutique" babies rose, and Rubens closed for good in November. The Sun-Times reports that the Baby Factory has just been sold to DePaul, which plans to build administrative offices on the site.

 
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