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October 07, 2011

Chicago Tribune: Naperville not putting out welcome mat for Islamic religious center

by Mick Swasko and Ted Gregory
The Chicago Tribune

For years, HOPE United Church of Christ advertised on its front lawn plans to build a church on 14 acres it owned just southwest of Naperville, and the minister there says he never heard so much as a peep of displeasure.

But those plans fell through, and now that the church wants to sell the property to another religious group, protests have erupted at the Naperville Planning and Zoning Commission. Handmade signs critical of the deal have sprouted on utility poles.

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