More information on the bid for Yerkes
ASTRO NEWS BRIEFS
Second Yerkes Bidder Goes Public
Last week, Illinois-based Aurora University announced that it had offered
the University of Chicago $4.5 million for the 79-acre campus of Yerkes
Observatory, home to the world's largest refractor. The other shoe dropped
Wednesday with a publicist disclosing that New York resort owners Gary and
Linda Dower have offered $10 million for the historic Williams Bay,
Wisconsin, facility -- an offer that, in an earlier form, spurred intense
interest among astronomers and area residents when rumors of it first
circulated late last year....
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