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Aurora City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve spending $5.3 million for 48 acres of land and the adjacent lake. The city is using $1.3 million in federal stimulus money from the American Rescue Plan Act to help pay for the purchase.
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Fast forward 2124. Headline: "In the city of Aurora, history is reinventing itself. The city council has approved a $200 million project to reconstruct the historic Big Dipper. The Big Dipper was an amusement ride of a mere 70 feet tall - tiny by comparison to today newest coasters that are 7000 feet tall, but it thrilled locals for more than 70 years. The wood for the ride will come from the land, planted in 2025 when the city made the land into a park." :-)
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