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Article: Yuppies, poor stay divided at South Loop
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 12, 1989
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The professional folks and the entrepreneurs arrived on foot,
streaming in from the expensive lofts and town houses just to the
north of South Loop School.
Welfare mothers and minimum-wagers arrived by car and bus,
rolling in from gray public housing a few blocks to the south.
They voted largely along economic and geographic lines Wednesday
- yuppies for yuppies and the poor for the poor - and when the voting
was over, many expressed hope that class strife at South Loop might
now, finally, be at an end.
"If we fight like this every year, nothing will work," said
Loretta Thomas, the parent of a 9-year-old child at South Loop. "It
has to stop. We have to do what's best for the ...