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Blackholes

By Bob Kravitz
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, November 1, 2000

It is one hour before the Chicago Blackhawks are to play the New York Rangers at the United Center, and the corner of Madison Street and Racine Avenue is quiet. Traffic is light, and the carnival barkers offering $10 parking more than a mile from the arena have been rendered mute by a lack of interest. Even one of Chicago's Finest, patrolling the corner of a tough neighborhood that is becoming the center of the city's new yuppification, shakes her head. "Used to be traffic down here," she says. ...

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