Tod Curtis wins the right to keep Ye Olde Town Inn and profit

Baxter Lomax

  Are favorite Chicagoland bar owner was in the local news again talking about his battle with village leaders in Mount Prospect who tried for years to take his business and put a Walgreens in its place.  Tod Curtis has owned the Ye Olde Town Inn in downtown Mount Prospect for the past forty six years and makes one hell of a pizza way better than tree guys pizzeria in the Itasca Inn. Tod has been harassed for years by village leaders trying to get rid of him and his business and old style charming building. Village leaders and their corrupt developers want so badly to turn the skylines of Mount Prospect into these five and six story expensive condos that have all the charm and look of Soviet style apartment buildings. They see a great turn of the century German looking building like Mr Curtis as too small and unprofitable to their pockets. Suburban areas in America  are some of the most corrupt places with the ugliest public architecture on the face of the industrialized world

   A court decided in Mr Curtis 's favor and awarded him a judgement of six million and two million of that will have to be coffee over to his lawyers. The settlement followed years of court battles between attorneys of the village and Mr Curtis and surely they made enough money to keep payments on their McMansions in somewhat more Norther burbs of Chicagoland. Despite the victory tough things look bleak as no Mr Curtis has proposed a six story condo building being built above his business instead of keeping the small town charm of his two story building. Here is nothing uglier than a suburban downtown area that is now dominated by the same amount of six story massive buildings most of which offer little storefront activity usually a dentist office or something similar. It seems that the real battle over the years for this business was property rights and who can profit from the destruction of small buildings for massive condos that squally only  wealthy Polish or other foreigner populations will show interest in purchasing in Chicago's suburban condo market.