Chapter VI: The poor people Obama left behind

Published September 19, 2012 4:00am ET



Four years after Barack Obama’s historic election as president, little seems to have changed for the African-American communities on Chicago’s South Side.

The lack of change — or the sense that these neighborhoods are getting worse — is eroding the president’s standing among African-Americans in his hometown.

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