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Thursday, April 25
Chicagoist's Kevin Robinson did some digging into ourcommunityourchoice.com, a site promoting bringing Wal-Mart to Chatham, and discovered it's not a grass-roots community organization at all: it's backed by the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and Wal-Mart.