KENOSHA, Wis. — Anguished residents wondered if their city would ever recover. It was 1988, and a grievous blow had struck Kenosha: Chrysler was shuttering its car assembly plant in the heart of the city, making 5,500 good jobs disappear. Ten percent of the city’s work force was gone, and an industry that had powered the town into middle-class prosperity for decades went quiet. “Everybody thought Kenosha was going to die,” said Jerry Costabile, 58, a charter fishing captain, whose house faces an empty lot where the old car plant once stood. “There was going to be nothing left.”That was the second-worst week in Kenosha history, Mr. Costabile said.

Source: New York Times August 29, 2020 14:15 UTC