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The land Mr. Pollard bought in the Town of Bloomfield is no longer in Bloomfield. It’s been annexed by a majority vote of the city council of Lake Geneva. Lake Geneva keeps getting bigger at the expense of its neighbors. The giant parcel of Mirabel Hummel fame, purchased by J.B. Pritzker several years ago added about ten percent of the land area to the city. This new parcel isn’t that big, about the size of Hillmoor, which remains one of the few undeveloped portions of land in Lake Geneva.
Mayor Krause is doing amazing work, sounding much like the many players attempting to end the war in the Gaza area. His work does not involve people dying, which is a thankful thing of unimaginable proportions. Still, it does bring together differential authorities and businesspeople who have little in common, other than the need to profit and move the community ahead at the same time. Annexation is a quiet but excruciating way to accomplish this. The land is taken from an underdeveloped community and then developed wherein the taxes on the newly developed land come into the coffers of the annexing property entity, with nothing flowing back to the community where the land was once an owned part of.
The Town of Linn has little use for the City of Lake Geneva, and annexation brought this about. Lake Geneva annexed the Mirabel Hummel property which Pritzker then bought. A local man named Dick Malmin, one of Lake Geneva’s unsung hero figures, put that all together. Pritzker paid the tab but his brother-in-law, a close friend of local Dick Malmin’s put it all together. Dick wants no credit and neither does the brother-in-law, but no matter. History is written in the strangest of ways. It remains true that, by performance, the brother-in-law and Pritzker himself stay at the top of the list when it comes to doing great things for the local community of Lake Geneva.
How does a community repay a debt like that, not to mention that Pritzker, his brother-in-law, and Dick Malmin performed this kind of operation, nearly in secret and not asking for any reward should receive just that? There’s a great city council installed in Lake Geneva. Yes, there’s a potential of a fetid quiet war with will conn be the City of Bloomfield and the, not the town, a big difference. Bloomfield will very soon be immune from having communities around it taking land and making money with its development. That’s going to happen eventually with the Town of Linn, as well. These smaller undeveloped communities are justifiably angry about this annexation, and they are right.
What does that mean for Lake Geneva? It means trouble. These land squabbles lead to burning hot hatred over time, and Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, and Scotland are most outstanding examples of just how many lives and fortunes can be lost through the years and how many lives are long in these seemingly never-ending disputes. Summer will be in all its beauty, not to mention loads of tourists and just about many locusts, as June nears its end. With more developments looking at the surrounding area like Symphony Bay, the crowds are going to need some close examination and analysis by the current city council.
