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Over the past five months, small businesses in America have been undergoing a mass extinction event.

Bars are closed, restaurants are half empty, and retail is shuttered.

Full blocks are slipping away.

I wanted a sense of how this is playing out in the city I live in, Chicago.

Not the one-off story of a beloved bar, not the frightening toll in national statistics.

I wanted the story of one block.

So I went to 75th Street, in the Chatham neighborhood, in the heart of Chicago's south side.

This part of the south side is really pretty.

There are huge street trees, flowers on the steps of the bungalows, brick two flats,

Al Capone used to live in one of them.

Many corners have signs from block clubs, setting the rules of the road, no loud music, no car repair,

Watch out for children playing.

Even in middle-class parts of the south side, commercial corridors have struggled.

Redlining, big-box stores, job loss, and black flight have left them full of vacancies.

There are signs for businesses that have been gone so long their phone numbers don't have area codes.

Signs for furniture stores, nurseries, food markets, stores that sold beapers.

Which is what has long made this stretch of 70th Street,

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