Commentary: South Bend having a moment, thanks to Buttigieg
by Jeremy Manier, Chicago Tribune
Apr 18, 2019
3 minutes
As a kid in my hometown of South Bend, Ind., I hoped our modest city would one day achieve true national prominence - but I soon understood that it probably never would.
I remember scanning the pages of an almanac in the 1970s to find our population, about 125,000, and thinking naively that there was plenty of room to grow. But I would learn that outside of Notre Dame football weekends, ours was like hundreds of other struggling cities and
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