Over a 50 year period, South Bend lost a quarter of its population while the country’s population rose by over 40%. How? Every neighborhood in the city lost people.
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Introducing an article and podcast series by Joe Molnar that will explore the process of how South Bend, which had grown for nearly its entire 120-year existence up to 1960, began a half century of decline.
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A list of stories curated by Belt Magazine editor Ryan Schnurr on the long history of racism and police violence in the Midwest—and what to do about it.
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On July 25, 1945, the South Bend Tribune broke the news of a new freight terminal to be built on former Oliver Corporation land, citing it as the “first hint of an industrial building boom in South Bend.” The terminal still stands today—empty.
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Last week my dad purchased a weather-worn 1952 Studebaker 2R-series truck with a plan to rebuild it from the ground up. This is the first in a series of posts documenting the process.
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Wilson Brothers Shirt Factory is a 133-year old, half-demolished complex on Sample Street in South Bend. We reflect on life surrounded by crumbling infrastructure and share photographs of the factory as it stands today.
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Today, The United States of Anxiety podcast released a new episode titled, “A Secret Meeting in South Bend,” in which host Kai Wright and reporter Jenny Casas tell the story of Better Homes of South Bend and discuss what it says about inequity in black homeownership now.
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On the first weekend of May, thirteen friends traveled to Culver, Indiana to spend three days in the Clemens Vonnegut Jr. House, a 130-year-old summer cottage that has become emblematic of a community’s fight for its soul.
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