Thursday, December 18, 2014

'Uber-gentrification' a force in Chicago's West Loop

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By: Natalie Moore | Dec 18, 2014 | WBEZ.org

Chicago’s West Loop used to be called Skid Row — a dark stretch of emptiness and foreboding industrial buildings. Then in 1990, a local talk show host moved her Harpo Studios into a former cold storage warehouse on west Washington Street. Call it the Oprah Effect. The neighborhood underwent a massive transformation that hasn’t really slowed down since. Oprah Winfrey is long gone. But blocks away another new occupant in a former cold storage warehouse is now the one making waves. Read More...

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