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Officials losing patience with church over parsonage

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The parsonage at First United Methodist Church in West Dundee is the subject of debate. Preservationists want the historic building saved and spiffed up. But church leaders want it razed and turned into a parking lot.

Christopher Hankins | Staff Photographer, 2008

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West Dundee authorities have waited months for leadership at First United Methodist Church to respond to their latest proposal, which outlines a plan to save a historically significant, but crumbling parsonage on the church's property. But because they've mostly gotten silence in return, the village's patience has finally run out.