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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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CST Editorial Board

City’s latest plan to rebuild South and West sides is admirable, but don’t forget the big picture

Maurice Cox, commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development, seeks to rebuild portions of South and West sides in a new phase of the city’s Invest South/West program. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times, Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Mayor Lori Lightfoot made the right move with the announcement this week of her three-part plan to rebuild whole swaths of the historically disinvested South and West sides.

The effort is being pitched as the second part of the mayor’s three-year-old Invest South/West initiative, which was designed to revive decaying South and West side commercial corridors.

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