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Article: Panel: Move or demolish Village Hall
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- Barrington Courier-Review (IL)
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- July 17, 1997
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Barrington Village Hall will either have to be moved or demolished so a new Village Hall can be built in its place, members of the building sites and facilities committee decided last week.
After a heated debate over whether to keep Village Hall and lease it to a private party or tear it down and rebuild it, committee members agreed that the old Village Hall had to go. Keeping it, and building a new Village Hall where the public safety building is now, would limit the space and functionality of the new facility. To tear it down was a more fiscally responsible decision, they concluded.
"It's the right thing to do, said committee member Steve Welch. "We own this land. If we didn't, and we ...