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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
Yeah, I'm sorry but I have no sympathy for interruption of the street grid or curvilinear buildings. The more unrelentingly square the street grid the better. The most universally we just vertically extrude that grid into blocks of buildings, the better. I can't wait til central Chicago looks like Paris, but with perfectly square blocks of buildings all built to like 10-50 floors high. The West Loop is making a good play at this, the Loop is already there. River North is following close behind.
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You all are pro monotony and anti variety. Nearly the entirety of the city is a grid (which I like too); being against just 1% being different is a bit fascistic. Are you guys going to propose Milwaukee, Clybourn, and Lincoln be ripped up and filled in with buildings? Are all the 6 way intersections uninteresting? Do you not marvel that the native american / esker trails have survived through the centuries? Also, have you not noticed 333 Wacker is one of the most admired buildings of its era?
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Originally Posted by harryc
Casinos are for loosers - Leave that niche for Gary.
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Yes, and even if someone put up a "classy" casino, there's no way to prevent it going way downmarket in the future, or to forestall a slippery slope of increasingly downmarket casinos proliferating nearby. Better to have tourism dollars flow to support higher entertainment arts like cuisine, or music, or sports.