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Alan Greenspan / Arlington Heights connection

Found this little piece of Arlington Heights and Alan Greenspan trivia on the Forbes Magazine website in a story called "Greenspan - Economist as Pop Culture Phenom"

Alan Greenspan Way. For one month in 2000, the Fed chief had a street named after him in Arlington Heights, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. The honor was the brainchild of 75-year-old Al Smith, a retired bank liquidator who was miffed that the city of Chicago had named a street after Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
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