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Will the foreclosure crisis kill Chicago?

…It’s one shock among many: Chicago had 33,902 vacant homes at midyear, up 22 percent from the end of 2010, according to DePaul University’s Institute for Housing Studies. In some census tracts in South Side neighborhoods such as Englewood and Back of the Yards, 1 in 6 homes is vacant…Please click here to read Alby Gallun and Micah Maidenberg’s story in Crain’s Chicago Business.