... of the people changed in this period, many of the jobs remained through the turn of the decade until the major employers such as Sears, Roebuck and Co., Western Electric Company, and International Harvester began systematically closing their doors. By 1970, 75 percent of the businesses that flourished during the middle part of the century were gone. Riots during the late ... assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Mayor Richard J. Daley had to bring in the National Guard to control the situation, but by the time it was over the area resembled a war zone, a description that still fits to...

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