By The Beachwood 2040 Affairs Desk
“At the behest of Mayor Daley’s former law partner, a City Council committee agreed Monday to extend until 2040 a franchise agreement that has allowed a private company to tear up Loop streets to install the chilled water pipeline needed to cool downtown office buildings,” the Sun-Times reported on Tuesday.
This got us to wondering what Chicago will look like when that contract finally runs its course.
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CTA hovercraft derails even without rails.
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City council approves Lake Michigan privatization deal.
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Last city landmark demolished.
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Cubs announcer Kerry Wood to miss rest of season with vocal cord strain.
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2016 Olympics finally paid off.
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Todd Stroger Jr. named county board president after father suffers stroke.
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Rod Blagojevich to write prison memoir.
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The Kennedy renamed the Obama.
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Michael Jordan: I’m Back!
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But is this season’s Bears team better than the 1985 team?
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Blackhawks still refuse to put home games on the Internet.
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ChicagoTribune.com slashes jobs as readers flock to wireless brain implants.
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Chicago Sex-Times wonders whose bots are hotter.
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Cryogenic Daley elected to another term.
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Gentrifying Stickney the new hot spot.
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Mayor says one day you’ll be able to eat out of the Chicago River.
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Oprah and Steadman plan fall wedding.
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Former President Obama to deliver Jeremiah Wright eulogy.
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Roeper & Roeper At the Movies premieres – Roeper debates old clips of himself reviewing classic oldies from 2000-2008.
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Soldier Field finally takes off, flies to home planet.
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Children’s Museum completes expansion into Grant Park softball fields.
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Could this finally be the year for the Cubs?
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City budgets $122 million for wrought iron removal.
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Continued delays due to three track construction on the Clear, Transparent, and Translucent lines of the CTA’s Elevated “Vacu-suck” Pneumatic tube people-mover system.
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Ozzie Guillen fined by Pleasant Meadows Nursing Home’s residents council for latest outburst.
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O’Hare Aviation Museum annexes fifth suburb.
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Milwaukee threatens to secede from Cook County.
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House Speaker Michael Madigan predicts overtime session.
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Last real bluesman leaves town.
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Block 37 blaxploitation megaplex a rousing success.
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Studs Terkel invites luminaries for 127th birthday party.
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Sweetheart chilled water pipeline contract finally expires.
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– Cate Plys, Rick Kaempfer, Marty Gangler, Bethany Lankin, Marilyn Ferdinand, Tim Willette, Brian Rhodes, Steve Rhodes
Posted on July 30, 2008