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Ask Geoffrey: 1/12

Yasmin Rammohan | January 12, 2012, 10:30 am

A South Side church is being carefully dismantled, stone by stone. What will happen to all the pieces? We find out from Geoffrey Baer in Ask Geoffrey.

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