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Coronavirus spares one neighborhood but ravages the next. Race and class spell the difference.
By Grace Hauck, Mark Nichols, Miriam Marini and Andrew Pantazi, USA TODAY Network
USA Today
CHICAGO — Train tracks run above the intersection of Kinzie Street and Ashland Avenue, two major streets that meet on Chicago’s West Side. On one corner of the intersection, there’s a trampoline park and new brewery. On the opposite corner, empty buildings for lease.
In one direction, a ZIP code relatively unscathed by the coronavirus outbreak. In the other, a community decimated by the disease. One mostly white, with six-figure incomes the norm. One mostly minority and earning much slimmer paychecks.
