I wonder if Woody, or this writer, ever visited Chicago in the early 1960’s. If they had, they would have witnessed the construction of public housing projects such as the Robert Taylor Homes, which ostensibly were designed to provide affordable housing, but which wound up warehousing and segregating large numbers of blacks away from the white neighborhoods, and became notorious hotbeds of crime, violence, and social disintegration. Mayor Richard J. Daley (Democrat) had the aim of segregation in mind when the locations for these projects were picked.
They were very industrious in the late fifties in Chicago. I remember picking up lead dimes and quarters in my change. Who but a hard worker would counterfeit dimes?