Noah Smith, Columnist

Why Chicago's Rebound Is in So Much Trouble

Soaring crime is the result of segregation, rising poverty and a dysfunctional police force.

November 10, 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC

Noah Smith is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion.

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By many measures, the city of Chicago -- the third most populous in the U.S. -- is doing well. The city's well-diversified economy has bounced back from the lost decade of the Great Recession, in terms of both output and employment levels: