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Originally Posted by Halsted & Villagio
Character my friend... character 
We all prefer the 19th century buildings.... but everything is not always about physical beauty when living in the city.... sometimes the beauty is found in function.
Having a street scale all hours restaurant of this type stick around helps make a city less sterile. And who knows, now with some new development right at his door, maybe the guy spends some donero to spruce the place up a bit.  |
By selling it to someone who knows how to make decent food?
And a one story structure is not "street scale", it's suburban style infill from when the area was urban-renewaled and needs to go.
But Chicago just really, really needs to stop building above ground parking.