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Eminent domain now big business

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One day at the age of 82, Irene Angell received an unexpected letter. The city of Des Plaines needed her home and planned to use eminent domain to force her to sell it.

Angell lived in the home for more than 80 years. Before that, it was her father's home, and before that it was her grandfather's home.

And now, it's a Walgreens. [Wonder what the Thief-in-Chief would say if WalMart wanted to build a store on Kennebuckport?]
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OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.

Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.

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