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Ask Geoffrey: 10/27

Yasmin Rammohan | October 27, 2011, 8:30 am

A nondescript building on the South Side may give a clue to what the neighborhood used to look like. Geoffrey Baer has more in this week's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

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