Chicago's Olympic Loss Hurts Bronzeville

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When a city is at the losing end of an Olympic bid, what happens to the city neighborhoods that were counting on a lift from all those Olympic development dollars?

That's the question they've been pondering in Chicago's aptly-named Bronzeville neighborhood since the city lost the bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in first-ballot voting last October. The unexpected loss leaves this embattled area in Chicago's South Side with an uncertain future.

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