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Why people stay after local economies collapse − a story of home among the ghosts of shuttered steel mills

  • Written by Amanda McMillan Lequieu, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Drexel University
Why people stay after local economies collapse − a story of home among the ghosts of shuttered steel millsSteelworkers line up for their paychecks at U.S. Steel's South Works in Chicago in 1959. Bettman Collection via Getty Images

It was midday on a Saturday, and Simonetta led me from the open front door of her home in southeast Chicago to her sitting room and settled next to her husband, Christopher, on the couch.

In the 1980s, Christopher had worked...

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