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Purple Reign

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The Purple Hotel

The hotel was built in 19 60, and it looks it. Then slowly, overtime, it became lincolnwood's most infamous building. It changed hands, got seedy and run down. There were drug fueled sex parties attended by shady secago politicians later convicted of things like extortion. And of course, there was the convicted mobster, allan dorfman, who was gunned down in the parking lot. But that's not why everyone in the area knows the building. If you know nothing of its history, it's still hard to miss, because it's purple,. really, really purple.

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