In Chicago’s Poorest Areas, Recovery May Be Long, If It Comes At All – WBEZ (Chicago)

“I’m in a constant struggle to get people to believe that they can make money and that I will keep them safe in an underserved market,” said Matanky, whose company owns or manages 3 million square feet of Chicago-area retail space, much of it in low-income communities. “To just have that safe convenient market destroyed for no good reason is going to put us back years.”
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debtsor
3 years ago

At least WBEZ is being honest, recovery isn’t coming. In fact, more of the fringe and recently gentrified neighborhoods are going to again be overrun by the unwashed masses. Irving Park, Western and Roosevelt will be the new ‘Maginot Line’ by which no one can safely cross. As the police department shrinks (due to sleath budget cuts disguised as Defund the Police movements), the residents of the southwest and northwest sides will see their property values decline and become overrun with criminals and other city residents desperately seeking a community with a functioning grocery store and retail presence. This is… Read more »

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Richard Poo Millersky
3 years ago
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Irving Park, Western and Roosevelt is pretty big.
 
Looters should be injured.
 
I was a little surprised about Naperville.
 
Racial profiling is to be expected. No good suburb wants to be another Harvey, Maywood, etc.
 
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