Finally, 10th Ward will gets its due with Calumet River bridge repairs

At the 95th Street bridge, Vice President Kamala Harris discusses the Biden-Harris administration’s infrastructure plan, which includes $144 million to rehab all four Calumet River bridges. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

For decades, whenever I encountered people elsewhere in the city, they inevitably would ask me where I was from? “The 10th Ward? Where’s that?” Or, “Oh ... you live down there?”

Sigh. Yes, I live “down there.” Or rather, I did. I was born and raised in the 10th Ward and lived there for 56 years.