Arm,
Thanks for the info much appreciated. What about D'Amico/Elmwood Park gambling and real estate interest in Rockford? Also does Rockford maintain a link with Chinatown still?
How much OC is going on up in Milwaukee? Isn't there a big golf outing every year? Didn't Chicago absorb gambling up there under Monteleone and 26th?
A LOT has gone on in the past few years.
What is left of Elmwood park and the Rockford family are making a killing on legit and semi real estate deals on the west side.
If you go by and see the construction around W State east of Maridian road,everyone from the trucks to the heavy equipment to the dumpsters down to the porta-potties had to present "performence bonds" to get the contracts. This in addition to the "dumping" of proerties after they have been gutted of all the copper and the ongoing slum lording. You have huge single family houses on and just off West State that sold for 35K, have been subdivided 6 ways and rented for $650 a month, it's a great racket.
As for Chinatown not sure there is much left to keep a connection with.
Milwaukee is struggling but still alive, and both Riockford and Chicago have taken some of that action.
