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+  From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:41:08 +0530
CHICAGO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Developers of a condo in the famed Oak Park village near Chicago got not bouquets but bricks -- in the form of a hefty fine -- for using the wrong bricks.

Commenting on the $188,223 fine, the village planner said the architect and the developer used a type of brick that doesn't "fit ... in to the neighborhood," reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

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http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060810-104528-6723r


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