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The new type of overlay would either outright ban or limit the presence of businesses like beer and cigarette markets, pawnshops and nightclubs in residential areas, even when existing zoning categories on a property would otherwise allow for them.
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Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
Sarno’s crew also engaged in smash-and-grab robberies in which hundreds of thousands of dollars in gems were stolen from jewelry stores and then fenced at a Cicero pawnshop operated by the Outlaws motorcycle gang, according to prosecutors.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
He is also suspected in the robbery of a pawnshop in which guns were stolen, according to Tisch.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 20 July 2025
No one knows better than a pawnshop owner how little value has to do with worth.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
Sarno’s crew also engaged in smash-and-grab robberies in which hundreds of thousands of dollars in gems were stolen from jewelry stores and then fenced at a Cicero pawnshop operated by the Outlaws motorcycle gang, according to prosecutors.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
He is also suspected in the robbery of a pawnshop in which guns were stolen, according to Tisch.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 20 July 2025
No one knows better than a pawnshop owner how little value has to do with worth.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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“Pawnshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pawnshop. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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pawnshop
noun
pawn·shop
ˈpȯn-ˌshäp 
ˈpän-
: a pawnbroker's shop
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