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Article: EDITORIAL: Suggestions for Chicago's South Loop
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- May 24, 2004
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Staff Editorial
University Wire
05-24-2004
(The Columbia Chronicle) (U-WIRE) CHICAGO -- When a small group of Chicagoans decided more than 20 years ago to kick-start a dying area loosely known as the Near South Side, few people took notice. Even as the area began to take shape under rising property values and high levels of gentrification, it took apprehensive city dwellers years before they thought of the South Loop as an adequate place to live.
Perhaps these people had a right to be suspicious.
The South Loop was, and still is, one of the most disconnected neighborhoods in Chicago. High-priced condos that litter the neighborhood still clash with the needs of middle-class families and ...
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