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I once had a temp job with the state of Illinois, worked in the massive basement of the Willard Ice building in Springfield, Il... it was totally reminiscent of the massive room of secret treasure from Indiana Jones
Huge cavernous basement that had tax files on what I assume is every citizen in the state of Illinois, and anyone who even does business in Illinois... my job was pulling various files for audit
Got to see all kinds of interesting files, tons of Chicago sports figures from benchwarmers to superstars
I spent a great deal of time pouring over Michael Jordans 1996? (memory is a bit foggy but thats close)... he made something like 89.6 million that year, his shoe contracts alone made a working man like me wanna cry
Even nobody benchwarmers for the Bears and White Sox had very lucrative gear/shoe deals
The pro and semi-pro gamblers were some of the most fascinating... there was a nurse from Peoria making roughly 45k a year at her job, but she was a Riverboat Queen
Her winnings tickets equaled roughly 80-90k, and thats not including the high life comps, many of which were detailed on her winnings tickets... she made all of that almost exclusively on $1 and $5 slots
She had to have dumped at least half of her job earnings into those slots to get there, but man talk about a return on investment
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