His company (Chamberlain) sold one out of every three garage door openers in the US.

And he owned a racetrack.

Made it to 100, RIP.

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I'm glad he lived to see the last race at Arlington. Sad that there had to be one at all.

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Dick Duchossois is SprialStairs' alias @ The Jeffery Pub.

Jorr pisses on grave?

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Elections have consequences.

Still crazy to me that there aren't races there. I always enjoyed an afternoon at the track. The quad city downs being turned into mini storage site is an oddity.. Maybe not as big of an oddity as there once being a Quad City Downs.

I'm not gonna ask how you know THAT place

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Is there still an OTB there?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

No clue. Im not much for gambling and I just enjoyed the experience at the track the few times I went over the years, never had any desire to goto an OTB.

I don't really have a beef with Mr. D. He always treated me well on a personal level.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

No.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

This sent me down quite the cultural rabbit hole.

He kind of led Arlington to failure, no?

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No. Arlington didn't really fail. Mr. D. was old and not in the best of health. His son who was the most interested in the business, Bruce, predeceased him. The other kids weren't passionate about racing/the racetrack. So he sold his shares to CDI. The first sale was a swap wherein he received CDI shares and at one point he was the biggest CDI shareholder. Eventually he began selling his stock back to CDI.

The track was his baby. I don't think they were ever going to destroy it while he was still alive. We were joking at the OTB today after we heard about his death that the truck with the wrecking ball was rolling down Northwest Highway.

Anyway, what caused Arlington to close was the avarice of CDI or their pursuit of shareholder value, however you want to view it.

But the real culprit is the State of Illinois. They had the power to keep Arlington open and they allowed CDI to shut it down. It never would have come to this had they passed the gambling bill that Quinn vetoed. And the State created the situation where CDI was allowed to buy the majority of Rivers where they don't have to share profits with horsemen. So why would they open a less profitable casino eight miles away to compete with themselves?

Further, if there ever is a Chicago casino, Neil Bluhm will be the guy running the show. Any other "bids" or considerations are just smoke and mirrors. It's s done deal for Bluhm. The only problem is that the people running Chicago are so fucking stupid they think that they can just demand extra vig in order to glom money they need to run the city. Bluhm is smart enough to know that isn't viable.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don