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  • It's not the same everywhere. Chicago has one of the biggest restaurant scenes in the country and there aren't any Native American restaurants. There are a few Mexican restaurants that do one or two traditional dishes, but that's it.

  • Ever see an old abandoned gas station lot sit unoccupied for years and years and wonder why nobody buys it? These tanks are why. To build something new on the land, you have to remove the tanks and clean up any spills. It usually costs more than the land is worth.

    Walgreens found an "interesting" way of using these properties. They get a 99 year lease, which means they can just pave over the land and leave all the contamination right where it is. The land owner will still be responsible for cleaning up the mess in 99 years, but they'll be dead so they don't care. Who cares if the people living nearby have unusually high incidence of cancer, right?

  • Gas stations keep their gasoline in underground storage tanks. Sometimes those tanks leak. The spilled fuel will spread on top of the water table. What happened before the EPA regulations is this gas would seep into basements and crawl spaces. The fumes would build up until something like the pilot light of a furnace was enough to ignite them. Then boom, the building would explode.

  • That's the trick though. Contempt of court isn't the same as breaking a law and doesn't have the same restrictions. For example, a person can be held in jail for contempt indefinitely without trial until the person yields to the demand of the judge. This sometimes happens to people who refuse to pay child support that the courts know they can afford.