| Holy Family, O'Learys honor church's 150th year
But they came to Holy Family Catholic Church on Thursday, smiling awkwardly at attention avoided for generations, out of devotion to the parish of their ancestors.
On Sunday, Holy Family will celebrate its 150th anniversary, having survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and other assorted calamities. Church leaders have spent the year renewing connections to the past it shares with Chicago.
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At luxury housing, recycled rain is a perk
Its host community will be spared the rainwater runoff and sewage that comes when land is first developed, because the developer, Highland Real Estate Development, has installed innovative, eco-friendly technology. A network of underground pipes and tanks collects and stores up to 120,000 gallons of rainwater so that it can be used to irrigate the property's landscaping. Mark Romanowicz, vice president of development for the project, said that during a dry season, it can be supplemented with water from on-site wells. Waste water from sinks, bathtubs, showers and toilets is routed into an on-site treatment system that leaves the water potable - although at Highland Meadows, the water will be routed into a leaching field and back into the environment. The waste-water treatment system employs something called a membrane bioreactor to filter out particles of matter and germs.
Label Focus #1: Drowned in Sound Recordings
Starting in a box-room in southeast London (scaggy Lewisham), the scenery is different now. DiS towers, aka the ‘DiSopolis', is a bright, nu-media-esque two-floor office in central London covered in press releases, CDs, promo stock, posters and a picture of someone from My Chemical Romance with a tacked-on speech bubble proclaiming “I'm a virgin. But nobody knows". (It doesn't say that anymore, actually – office speech bubble grunt.) Actually it's a lot like Sean's bedroom, only with a nice coffee machine. According to Adams, the label was never part of a grand scheme for world-domination: “I never started out wanting to run a label. I was always just an over-opinionated music fan, but then I started finding bands and seeing their careers careen out of control. It drove me crazy thinking how I could do a better job.
Audit faults Md. oversight of mortgage sector
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. Not only did Maryland lack strong laws to prevent abuse by mortgage operators, it didn't enforce what flimsy regulations it had during the worst mortgage blowup in memory.
As of June, state regulators were as much as two years late in performing required mortgage-lender examinations, according to a new audit by the Department of Legislative Services.
A flood of mortgage-broker applications overwhelmed the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation after Jan. 1, making it more likely that licenses were being granted to unqualified people. The office also failed to ensure that mortgage lenders and other financiers with expired licenses were no longer doing business in the state, the audit found.
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Packers Team up with Real Estate Developer
A big development deal is in the works involving land west of Lambeau Field, along Ridge Road, and where a Kmart store is now, along Brookwood Drive. The Green Bay Packers now own $15 million worth of land near the stadium. The team teamed up with Management Enterprises to buy property near Kroll's West restaurant, Sidelines sports bar, and Kmart. Management Enterprises could not be reached for comment Friday about the deal but Packers Vice President of Administration Jason Wied said the partnership will pay off. "There's a lot of different ideas that could come up over time, and we're really not locked in to any of them right now but we felt like it was a strategic, long-term investment for the Packers to make for our future," Wied said.
Colorado Springs fights to keep USOC
COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 16 The U.S. Olympic Committee wants the city of Colorado Springs to provide 90,000 square feet of office space and 200 new residences for it to stay put.
City officials Monday told developers the national Olympics movement organization required a mix of apartments, townhouses and dormitory-style accommodations for married and single athletes in addition to 90,000 square feet of new downtown administrative office space, the Colorado Springs (Colo.) Gazette reported Tuesday.
Two of four local real-estate firms have submitted proposals to provide new USOC facilities in town in a bid to keep the organizing committee from moving its headquarters, with 240 employees, and Olympic Training Center away.
The USOC moved to Colorado Springs from New York City in 1978.
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