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Friday, December 27, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: How about telling the Tale of 2 Cities in Chicago?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: How about telling the Tale of 2 Cities in Chicago?:

How about telling the Tale of 2 Cities in Chicago?

Lovely Warren (left) celebrates victory
The two-cities movement is spreading beyond New York City, where it swept Mayor-elect Bill de Blasiointo office. This same focus on inequality is also what led to the election last month of Lovely Warren as Mayor of Rochester.

According to the New York Times:
Warren won election as mayor of Rochester last month with a campaign lamenting what she called the “two Rochesters,” challenged by crime and poverty, but also boasting prosperous neighborhoods.
 The push in New York comes as a variety of elected officials across the nation have begun talking more insistently about income inequality, an issue that has