Windy City Thunderbolts

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The Windy City Thunderbirds don't play in the city of Chicago itself, but rather in the suburb of Crestwood, Illinois. And if you go to the Wikipedia page for Crestwood, Illinois, you don't find much there. The page is about six screens long (on my computer, at least), and it doesn't really say all that much. There's no history section at all. It doesn't have an economy section. What it does have is short, mostly uninteresting sections for Geography, Demographics, Government and Politics, Transportation, Sports Teams (this one is just two sentences, mentioning the Thunderbolts), Education, Notable People (you haven't heard of any of them), and, um, Water Contamination.

Okay, that's something you don't see every day.

The Water Contamination section briefly discusses a scandal from the first decade of this century where the village had been informed by the state EPA that a well it used for drinking water was contaminated and was ordered to stop using that well, but they never did. To be clear, the state informed them of this in the 1980s, so it's not like they hadn't had time to shut it down and find other sources. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but suffice it to say that multiple village officials were convicted for crimes related to this, and the recently-retired mayor only escaped trial because he was deemed not competent to stand trial. If you really want to learn more, there's a webpage just about the water contamination scandal on Wikipedia which goes into great detail (it's over five times as long as the webpage for the village itself).

There's not much else to say about Crestwood, because like I said, the Wikipedia page doesn't have much (nor does the village's own page). It does show that the population of Crestwood started declining with the 2010 census. I can't imagine why.

I also don't have a lot to say about this logo. As you can see, it's just a word. It's not even the full name of the team, although if you look closely the B is actually a combination of a T and a B.

That's it. That's the most interesting thing about the logo.

And I can't find anything interesting about the village itself aside from a scandal from fifteen to twenty years ago where the village was poisoning its own residents. Since I don't feel like going into more detail on that, I have nothing more to talk about.

So I'm done.

Final Score: 36 points.
Penalties: Letter, 24 pts; Logo, 12 pts.
Bonuses: None.