If there is a silver lining in a dragnet of federal agents invading the region, it has to be that area motels and hotels will be brimming for at least a month with G-men billeted on the taxpayers’ dime.

Some 300 of them will be spending their nights in cozy comfort after a long day of searching for undocumented residents.

For Gurnee hoteliers, it must be a boon considering Six Flags Great America has gone to weekends-only operations, with Fright Fest beginning Sept. 13. Area restaurateurs should also see a spike in diners as platoons of agents stationed up this way no doubt will be eating out a lot.

Perhaps some Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be assigned to the posh Deerpath Inn in Lake Forest, or better yet the Great Wolf Lodge in Gurnee. Nothing like an indoor wate

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