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THE CITY DESK

Detroit Beyond the Case

Politics, neighborhoods, transportation, industry and the events changing the city around every investigation.

Looking north on Woodward Ave. from the Maccabees Building
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Looking north on Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building, Detroit, July 1942.
Source: Arthur S. Siegel / source record · Public domain — FSA/OWI
THE CITY AROUND THE CASE

Detroit beyond the headline.

City pages carried the events surrounding every investigation: elections, public works, factory changes, neighborhood disputes, transportation, weather and civic life. Those stories help reconstruct what Detroit looked and felt like on a particular date.

That context is especially useful in the books and chronology. It lets a case remain a case while the city around it stays historically visible.

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