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View of the boat slips at the Dixie Star Marina in Riverdale, Illinois, Monday, May 14, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
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Bar area at the renovated new Dixie Star Restaurant in Riverdale, Illinois, Monday, May 14, 2012. New owners and patrons are a welcome sight to neighbors and the village of Riverdale at the former rap club where a DJ was shot and killed last year. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Boat storage facility at the Dixie Star Marina in Riverdale, Illinois, Monday, May 14, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Artist rendering of the Riverdale Marina. Supplied drawing
Artist rendering of the Riverdale Marina. Supplied drawing
Workers paint fresh stripes on the repaved parking lot at the Dixie Star Restaurant and Marina in Riverdale, Illinois, Monday, May 14, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media ia
Renovated dining area at the new Dixie Star Restaurant in Riverdale, Illinois, Monday, May 14, 2012. New owners and patrons are a welcome sight to neighbors and the village of Riverdale at the former rap club where a DJ was shot and killed last year. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Owner Mike Griffin looks around the boat storage facility where piles of old boats were removed to help clean up the grounds at the Dixie Star Marina in Riverdale, Illinois, Monday, May 14, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Restoring the blighted Riverdale marina, the jewel of the Little Calumet River, would take leadership, a multimillion-dollar investment and scores of talented, trustworthy contractors. So the marina’s managing partner — a felon who wore a wire in the federal inquiry into Tony Rezko — hired …