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Article: On the lake with two names, a boom brings many changes.(Lake Geneva)(Wisconsin)(includes hotel, restaurant and attractions listings)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- August 22, 2005
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Byline: Alan Solomon
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. _ It's changing here too.
For the better? For the most part. But there's a tug _ and we'll get to that a little later.
For sure, Lake Geneva is on a roll. It's surrounded by booming development on its edges that's beginning to ease closer to town, for one thing. For another, the semi-historically significant downtown is full of shoppers and full of flowers, and there was a time not long ago when it was full of neither.
"We're spending about a hundred grand a year making the town look good," says George Hennerley, longtime executive vice president of both the Chamber of Commerce and the Convention ...