1,500' Tower at MCC - Oh, really?

Just how tall is 1,500 feet? Like, compared to the Sears Tower in the Chicago Loop.

Next time you are downtown (make it soon), stand on the sidewalk and look up? And up. And up. That's how tall!

MCC was founded in 1967 and "...in December 1971, residents voted to accept the present 68 acre site known as the Weber farm", according to http://www.mchenry.edu/. How did it get the land? Did MCC purchase it? Was it donated? Did the trustees rub their hands in glee and shout, "Man, we are sitting on a gold mine. Just wait 'til we can start selling off little pieces for millions of dollars"? I doubt it.

Are the current trustees going to follow the faulty path of the State of Illinois and sell off assets (land) in a grab for cash (which they will spend and then have neither the land nor the cash)?

If you want to throw in your two-cents' worth on this, don't miss the Trustees' meeting at MCC on Wednesday, February 18, 7:00PM.

If this deal goes through, will it contain a condition that, someday in the future when technology changes and this tower is obsolete, it will be dismantled and removed from the property? Better get that money in escrow and then invested to keep pace with wrecking crew prices. A "promise" to take it down won't be nearly good enough.