MARKTOWN

The pictures are great. Marktown was a great place to live and raise your children. Everyone owned there own home and had pride in ownership. Generation after generation stayed and kept a nice home and raised their family. Once people starting dying and moving away, a few slum landlords bought up the property and rented the homes or left them empty and never put a dime back into them, back taxes are owed on many of the properties. It's a shame how much damage a few greedy people can do to a entire community. I read that Harlem NY had the same problem with slum landlords buying up the brownstones and renting for outrageous rent. If you buy a house in Harlem, you must live it the home. It worked in NY, it can work in East Chicago.