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This summer, billions in debt and with decades of mass population exodus behind it, Detroit made history as the largest city to file or Chapter 9 bankruptcy. In essence, the city, once the nation’s fourth most populous and known as the Paris of the Midwest for its glimmering Beaux-Arts structures and ubiquitous public art, was throwing up a white flag. Too many people needed money, and too few had stayed to help generate enough of it.
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