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To: Liz
She (the 1st Wookie) wants the simple farming life. Obama has asked friends to find a working farm in in Cook County.

Unfortunately there isn't any more working farms in Crook County. All that land has been sold off and Houses now sit on them. However if it was about Fifty Years ago there was a perfect 'working farm' for them ...

The Cook County Jail's Bridewell Farm!

'The Bridewell' was roughly located at County Line Road and US Route 66.

If you were convicted of a crime that carried a sentence from Six Months to One Year you'd be sent to work on the farm. When I was a preteen some of the 'Older Guys' (18-21) in the neighborhood got sent there for getting in Bar Fights.

I can't recall exactly when it closed but when I-55 was built at that spot in the early 60's the Bridewell was gone (though some of the Guard Towers were still standing in '63-'64). The land was sold off and The Cook County Jail at 26th St and California Avenue was expanded with new wings and buildings (on land once occupied by HUGH factories).

In any case, that 'farm' would be the perfect spot for the BOTH OF THEM. A jail Farm!

52 posted on 04/01/2011 10:11:15 AM PDT by Condor51 (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Congressman. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain])
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To: Condor51
Architect's plan for Obamas' Chicago Farm.

Plenty of room for the chicken coops and cabbage patch.

55 posted on 04/01/2011 10:50:14 AM PDT by Liz (A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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