A once-thriving retail strip suffers from broken promises, bad policy and neglect.
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Disinvested: How Government and Private Industry Let the Main Street of a Black Neighborhood Crumble <[link removed]> A half-century after Chicago’s uprisings in 1968, a once-thriving retail strip in East Garfield Park still suffers from broken promises, bad policy and neglect. by Tony Briscoe, Haru Coryne, Mick Dumke
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