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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		The Pandemic Induced City Families to Escape to the Northwoods. They’ve Stayed.
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:20
	Publish Date:		2021-04-22 12:51:38
	Description:		Laura Boll, her husband, and their two young children thought the Northwoods would provide them a brief refuge. They came to stay at their vacation home between Land O’Lakes and Phelps as the pandemic started last March. “We came up here the week that happened, thinking, maybe we’ll be here for a couple weeks to a couple months,” Boll told WXPR in September. The family lived in a Chicago suburb but opted to try to wait out the worst of COVID-19 at their second home on Kildare Lake. “We were in a small, three-bedroom rental house with a teeny backyard [in Chicago]. Up here, the house is way bigger, way more land, way more space,” Boll said. When we first talked, spring had bled into summer, the pandemic hadn’t eased, and the family decided to enroll the kids at Land O’Lakes Elementary School. But it thought it might well eventually head back to Chicago. Now, the story is different. We caught up with Boll again this week to see how things were going. The family decided to stay long-term
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