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The fun never ends inside Chicago's upended corncobs, especially if you consider bald-faced lies by your condominium association entertaining. Last week, I brought you the tale of bone-headed new rules proposed by Marina City's controversial condo board. This week, the board is trying to squeeze mon
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There are two ways to brand and position a world-famous residential tower: the right way; and the way downtown Chicago's Marina City condo board is planning to go about it. Four words for Marina Citizens: don't ask; don't tell. Really?
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On those nights when they burn the house down at the House of Blues, we shudder in Marina City condos above. Most of us are familiar with the midnight din of emergency vehicles looming loud and coming to a halt beneath our bedroom windows.
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In October 2006, Allstate Insurance filmed a TV commercial in and around Marina City. Based on the famous car-chase scene from the 1980 action film, The Hunter, Allstate recreated the famous fall of an automobile off one of Marina City's 18-story parking decks and into the Chicago River, below.
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The Marina Towers Condominium Association signed a little-known but publicly available legal agreement in 2003 promising never to seek or support landmark status for Marina City. Who knew? (And...why?)
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'Tell me the truth: should I move to Marina City?' If there's one question I hear more than any other, it's that one. Over the past year, Chicago Carless has become a go-to site for information about life here at the corncobs--in all its sometimes glorious and sometimes gory details. So I've put tog
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A surprise development in the Gary Kimmel hooker scandal, the Marina City story that just keeps on giving. One 35-year-old Jody Spears was indicted in federal court on charges of sex trafficking involving minors as young as 14 years old. According to an FBI affidavit, Spears is quoted as saying, 'So
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You knew it had to happen. After a year of growing discontent with the current notorious state of affairs at Marina City, late last month a group of Marina City resident-owners filed suit against the condominium association for the twin 60-story corncobs, alleging the current voting proxy system in
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At the July 18 status hearing and notice of motion for Marina City's most famous dentist, Gary S. Kimmel, the good doctor was granted a request to travel, but he and his attorney, Joseph Lopez, were reminded to mind the 'restrictions.' These were not specified, but it's probably safe to assume that
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Exactly when I decided to leave New York has always been one of the biggest mysteries of my life. To this day, I still can't identify the moment when I made or was set upon by the decision to leave behind Gotham and all of its angst and adopt the relentlessly friendly American Midwest as my home. Ho
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Some readers have wondered about the reason for these weekly flower posts. The short of the story is a condominium association at Marina City that appears to be of the opinion that it's doing residents a favor by allowing a volunteer floral terrorist-cum-arranger to plop awful, phoney flower arrange
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You West Tower residents, you think you're so high and mighty, laughing and lording it over us East Tower folks just because we've been the ones stuck with most of the fires, floods, and water pressure poop-outs lately. Well chuckle no more, you ne'er-do-well neighbors. It's your turn now, do you he