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Roos demolition offers a blank slate for Forest Park

The walls at the Roos building are tumbling down and not a moment too soon. When this building is flattened, we will all look back with gratitude that over its final undignified five years. No one died in this wreck. No roaming teen fell through a hole in the roof. No homeless squatter was done in by a wall collapsing.

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Roos demolition contract finalized

Park District of Forest Park commissioners, at a meeting Aug. 1, voted to finalize plans for the emergency demolition of the Roos building. Midwest Wrecking Company of Chicago submitted the low bid to demolish the building for no more than $335,000.

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Who's Roos?

The enormous brick building with the funny name Roos is being demolished, and with it, brick-by-brick an era of history in Forest Park comes to an end.

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