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Double Door is saved!

"The owners of the Double Door tavern and its landlords on Thursday found a way to keep the storied music venue from closing, ending a year of rancor with 2½ hours of talks in a Circuit Court hallway.The agreement restored faith for some that an element of cool could remain in the face of rising property values in the hip Wicker Park neighborhood and narrowly pre-empted a civil suit scheduled to start Thursday afternoon.The pact, which will extend the Double Door's lease until at least 2009, with an option to extend until 2014, brought cheers from two dozen tavern supporters packed into a 26th floor courtroom in the Daley Center."

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