Quote of the day: gas station should be celebrated as part of city's "ecosystem"

“I think that the ecosystem of a city is every bit as fragile as that of the Amazon rain forest, and once you start taking away all these peculiar little landmarks or defining landmarks in a way that doesn’t include places of the recent past, these sort of little lynchpins of a neighborhood, then what are people going to love about Chicago? What is it if we are all condos and Banana Republics – and of course everybody says Starbucks, the Starbucks.”

– Writer Carol Anshaw, extolling the virtues of Gas for Less, 2801 N Damen Ave, in a Chicago Tribune video posted today.

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