This Wednesday, NPR\’s All Things Considered presented a story about Washington Park, IL [audio here]. The focus of the story was the town\’s primary industry: adult entertainment. It\’s location right off of the highway near St. Louis makes it a great location for strip clubs, and the town government has embraced the clubs as a source of revenue to improve the fortunes of the ailing community. There is, naturally, considerable opposition to this.
What I found interesting about the story was a brief statement that the Washington Park Public Library used to be one of these clubs. That must have been an interesting renovation.
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