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The Value of Opportunity
Where you grow up influences how you move on the income ladder. A group of researchers from Harvard University, led by economist Raj...
Why East William Street Is Not Straight: Anna Beman & the Eventual Development Called Beman Plac
At the intersection of North Jasper Street & East William Street you encounter the legacy of one widow and her resistance to residential...
The Value of Weak Ties
Recently a blog discussed the value of barely casual connections in a neighborhood and how recent popular press articles have suggested...
The Possibility of Collaboration
"As Team Decatur, we can do anything." - City of Decatur Mayor Julie Moore-Wolfe On Wednesday, August 22, City Council members, Decatur...
What Difference Could One Hour Make?
In the musical Rent, we hear this calculation of the exact number of minutes in a given year: "Five hundred and twenty-five thousand,...
The Rolling Mill Years 1870-1875
Today it is hard to imagine Jasper Street as the eastern edge of Decatur. But when the Cleveland Rolling Mill company executives Andros B...
Drive-Through or Destination?
You can always tell when there is a train blocking East Eldorado. East Prairie Street (or Avenue, depending on block or sign) transforms...
A Brief History of Clokey Park
Clokey Park (officially J.M. Clokey Park), was first platted in April 1888 with its western half as part of the East Park Boulevards...
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