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The Daily has learned that the judge has granted a continuance in today’s scheduled Court of Common Pleas hearing in the case of Siloam vs. the Board of L&I Review and Callowhill Neighbors Association on the fate of the 1849 Church of the Assumption. Oral arguments will now begin April 26.
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Nathaniel Popkin is co-founder of the Hidden City Daily and author of three books of non-fiction, including Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City (with Peter Woodall and Joseph E.B. Elliott) and two novels, Everything is Borrowed and Lion and Leopard. He is co-editor of Who Will Speak for America, an anthology forthcoming in June 2018, and the senior writer of the film documentary "Philadelphia: The Great Experiment."
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