The map shows one zip code on Chicago's South West Side, 60629.
This neighborhood has been gutted. The red dots represent all of the properties in that zip code that are either in pre-foreclosure or are already bank owned.
Now, according to the Washington Post, Chicago has become a foreclosure-free zone.
It wasn't the banks or judges that instituted the moratorium, because they were still moving cases forward at a rapid clip. The holdup was elsewhere: at the sheriff's office.
Sheriff Thomas J. Dart, whose office is responsible for physically evicting delinquent homeowners, announced Oct. 19 that his deputies would "no longer be doing the banks' work for them anymore."
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