Town note
Through the 1830s the Potawai had camps in the Arlington Heights area, used for about six weeks a year between their summer and winter places.
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FILE 460 / 20 January 2024 / 70 MIN / express
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Through the 1830s the Potawai had camps in the Arlington Heights area, used for about six weeks a year between their summer and winter places.
about 0:05:06In 1833 the Potawai signed the 1833 Treaty of Chicago with the United States.
about 0:05:42The treaty gave the United States control of all the land west of Lake Michigan and east of Lake Winnebago in exchange for another tract of land.
about 0:05:51Through the 1830s the Potawai had camps in the Arlington Heights area, used for about six weeks a year between their summer and winter places.
about 0:05:06In 1833 the Potawai signed the 1833 Treaty of Chicago with the United States.
about 0:05:42The treaty gave the United States control of all the land west of Lake Michigan and east of Lake Winnebago in exchange for another tract of land.
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"$106,996"
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2.7 / 5 · average of 3
“The most family friendly place on earth, filled with activities for people of all ages.”about 0:07:12
“Wants fewer potholes, but otherwise the neighbourhood streets are quite nice and many people walk on a nice day.”about 0:07:40
“The reviewer says only that they do not know much about the place.”about 0:08:33
“Very dull with crazy high property taxes, extremely unfriendly neighbours, no public transport and nothing for young adults to do.”about 0:08:59
Arlington Heights, Illinois, is a suburb about forty minutes outside Chicago with a population of 77,283. James opens with the town's history, its reviews and its Frontier Days festival before turning to a family that, as he puts it, was doomed. In 1988 sixteen-year-old Patricia Lauratus, known as Patty, was walking hand in hand with her nineteen-year-old boyfriend Robert Kosick along Gregory Avenue, on the edge of the Pastackey Highlands subdivision north of McHenry. Kosick jumped aside and heard the thud. She had served about thirty months.
Patty's cousin was Christin Marie Papelka, born on 3 January 1978. In 1999 she was living in her parents' house in Spring Grove, McHenry County. By 2000 she had moved in with her boyfriend Steve Hudson, twenty-six, at the Tanglewood Apartments in the 2100 block of South Gobert Road in Arlington Heights, close to her job as a cuser service representative at AJ Gerard in Des Plaines, where she had worked since March. Hudson was a delivery driver with a commercial licence.
On the morning of 28 September 2000 Hudson left about 7.30 for the Secretary of State's office in Elk Grove to renew his licence. Neighbours heard a loud argument and banging. At 10.30 he came back and found Christin beaten to death: seventy-five injuries, a crushed skull, blood everywhere. Long blond hairs were in both her hands and beside the body, along with a press-on fingernail, and bloody footprints smaller than Hudson's led out of the door. Eight thousand dollars in cash was missing. A week earlier Christin had reported her underwear stolen from the laundry room, and police were also looking for a man seen taking women's underwear there.
She had long blond hair and was missing two cosmetic nails on each hand, with a torn natural nail and open wounds on two fingers. She said she had hurt her hand in the garbage disposal. Detectives played her a surveillance tape that showed nothing and asked whether she would appear on it; she burst out that she had only been there to drop off Steve's clothes. Bloody shoe prints, blood in her flat and car and DNA on a tissue and on the nail tied her to the scene.
On 15 May 2006 a performance review cut his pay from $62,000 to $42,000 and removed his title. The next morning he took a kitchen knife from the office, hid it in his sleeve and stabbed Poter repeatedly; a colleague, Christopher Hoss, pulled him off, but Poter died.
1988 / Gregory Avenue, near the Pastackey Highlands subdivision north of McHenry, Illinois
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September 28, 2000 / her apartment at the Tanglewood Apartments, 2100 block of South Gobert Road, Arlington Heights
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May 16, 2006 / Poter Construction and Development, Chicago area
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