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Article: Residents work to revive north-end neighborhood.
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- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2005
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Byline: Karamagi Rujumba
Jul. 10--In its heyday, Toledo could have been Chicago.
With its strategic seat along the Great Lakes and crisscrossing railroads, the city once was an industrial giant that aspired to be a major commercial and transportation hub of the Midwest.
And the place to be from about the late 1870s to the late 1920s was Vistula, the city's oldest neighborhood. It was an affluent part of town, yet it had a mix of working and middle to upper-class residents. The neighborhood was surrounded by a growth of factories that supported a booming manufacturing presence.
Over the years, however, urban blight, crime, low ...