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On the recordJuly 13, 2020
I spent probably 2 hours looking at those maps just almost trembling in rage at the fact that we could see, you know, maybe almost a century later the fingerprints of the redlining.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Foster expresses anger over the lasting impact of redlining in his cities.

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