Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Just's story is that Lawyer Goldstein told him Billy Skidmore had bought the Bon Air Country Club, just inside the border of Lake County, and meant to turn it into an elegant casino for suburban socialites. If the News-Sun would lay off Skidmore's casino, Publisher Just would find $100,000 on his desk. When Frank Just refused (he says), Lawyer Goldstein threatened to start a rival paper...
...August day Publisher Just got word in Canada that the Bon Air Country Club was open for business and going full blast. Frank Just's cruiser made the spray fly across Lake Michigan, speeding home to Waukegan. Back at his desk, he sent the News-Sun's star feature writer, a girl reporter named Gladys Priddy, to see what was going on at the Country Club...