The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 2053

Chapter 2053

Kelly is actually from Chicago. Her mother was a Chicago beauty pageant winner at a very early age. Then she met her mother, a wealthy businessman in Chicago.

And then there was her! She lived in Chicago as a kid!

It's just that things are changing too fast.

A long time ago, she moved to a small town with her family. As we all know, in the magical land of the United States, the richer you are, the more you have to move away from the city. In fact, in the early West, just like China, the rich lived in the city and the poor lived in the suburbs. But with the development of urbanization, the city can no longer meet the living requirements of the rich. On the one hand, the high welfare in Europe and the United States has caused many people not to work, and even spawned some homeless people, resulting in poor environment, chaotic public security and high crime rate in the city.

On the other hand, after years of development in the urban area, many supporting facilities have become old. For example, the subways in the urban areas of the United States are very dirty and messy, and the rich basically do not take them. In addition, there are many gathering places for homeless people in the urban areas. The rich cannot get their ideal social culture in the urban areas, and they do not want their next generation to live in such an environment. Therefore, they gradually built rich areas in the suburbs. Unlike rural areas and small towns in China, the "suburbs" in the United States usually refer to satellite cities around metropolitan areas, usually with a population of 30,000 to 50,000 and a small population. It is a certain distance away from the urban area, quiet, safe, and has a good environment. There are no idle people, the houses cover a large area, have good privacy, the infrastructure is newer than that in the city center, and the quality of the residents is similar...

It has to be admitted that the rich do have more choices than the poor, and they can choose a better living environment for themselves. The suburbs of the United States have better environmental facilities than the urban areas, and the environment, school districts, medical care, safety and other factors are better than the life in the city center, so of course it has become a better choice for the rich.

Of course, more importantly, urban hollowing out.

Hollowing out refers to the decline of the city's central business district and the outflow of population. The population in the city center decreases, commercial activities weaken, and the vacancy rate of buildings increases, forming a hollowing out of the city, while the development of the surrounding areas is slow. The hollowing out phenomenon is very common in the United States, especially in industrial cities and agricultural areas, and is more prominent in some old industrial cities. According to the U.S. Department of Land Planning, since 2000, the population of the urban center areas of 50 of the 39 states in the United States has declined, and the number of hollowed-out cities in the United States has increased by 27%.

The West Side of Chicago has also suffered from the same problem, with a vacancy rate of over 25%. These vacant properties not only waste resources, but may also lead to problems such as rising urban crime rates, declining social mobility and reduced fiscal revenue. There are many reasons for the hollowing out of cities in the United States, one of the important reasons being the change in the industrial structure and economic model of cities. With the outward migration of manufacturing and the popularization of automation technology, traditional manufacturing and heavy industry are no longer the main economic sources of cities. The service industry and information technology industry have become new economic growth points, leading to changes in the industrial structure and occupational structure of cities, a decrease in urban employment opportunities and population loss. In addition, the trend of urban expansion and suburbanization has led to the outward migration of population and commercial activities in the city center. At the same time, the infrastructure in the city center is aging, and the maintenance and renewal of streets, parks, buildings, etc. also require huge investment. Some city governments are unable to bear these expenses due to financial difficulties, which has also caused the poverty of the city center and the intensification of social inequality.

Chicago is the third largest city in the United States. It is located in the south of Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes. It is an important economic and industrial center in North America. Because it is located in the earliest industrial zone in the United States, the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, Chicago's industrial modernization construction started very early and it also undertakes a large part of the economic trading activities in the United States. With the establishment of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago has become the second largest economic center in the eastern United States.

Today, Chicago is often compared to a paradise on one side and a hell on the other. In the north of the city, a typical wealthy area is built around the central business district. This is where white people gather and has all the landmark buildings and skyscrapers in the city. The infrastructure construction, cultural education, and municipal management level are very high. In contrast, the south and west of the city where black people gather are left with public housing, motels, and gangs. Children in the white area are born in spacious apartments and enjoy a good education. Children in the black area huddle in dilapidated public housing, listening to the stories of those powerful gangsters.

In short, Kelly moved to a small town near Chicago with her parents a long time ago.

Then her father died and her mother inherited a huge fortune.

Then she met Kai, who had an affair with her mother, and then had an affair with her... Although Kelly was very unhappy about this, it was still a good thing because her father died early and her mother was a typical American sweet girl, which led to Kelly being very open in some aspects.

And later on, her mother found a rich old man to marry, but there wasn't really any bloody plot.

Speaking of this, Kelly also admires her mother very much. This woman seems to have special abilities. In fact, her business level is average. Although her personal style is very open, her investment style is very conservative. She is the type of person who can neither make a lot of money nor lose a lot of money.

But somehow, she always manages to catch rich men!

Logically speaking, a beautiful and wealthy widow like her would be the favorite of gigolos, but Kelly's mother doesn't like gigolos. She likes rich old men.

So, relying on her relationship with the rich old man, her assets continued to increase.

Now Kelly's stepfather has gone even further. He has changed his will and left all his property to her mother.

Kelly's mother has been married more than twice... In fact, she has had at least six marriages. In three of them, she got all the property, and in the other three times, she also got a lot of property. In addition, she had more than a dozen relationships without getting married.

This allowed Kelly's mother, a woman who barely graduated from high school, to at least quintuple her assets in just over a decade!

Kelly had suspected in the past that her mother was the kind of swindler who specialized in getting married, killing people, and stealing property. She felt that her father might have been harmed by her mother.

Really, Kelly had doubts for a long time.

Later, when I met Kai, I found out that it was not the case at all. Her mother was just a bit perverted and liked old men... of course they had to be rich. Her relationship with Kai was purely an accident. After all, old people are not good at muscle and bones.

Far away.

Back to Kelly, Kelly has always regarded Chicago as her hometown. Seeing the city she loves become like this, she naturally has the idea of ​​changing Chicago in her heart... Well, actually, she watched Legally Blonde and thought the heroine in it was very cool, and she also wanted to be powerful. But until she went to school, she realized... she thought too much. She didn't have the brain to become a lawyer. Her mother was indeed rich, but her mother's main message was "studying is useless."

After all, her mother is just a high school graduate... and she was the kind of person who was happily educated in a public high school. Wouldn't she be a super rich person?

Why should a girl learn so much? If she dresses up nicely, she can make money naturally! So she was not willing to donate a teaching building to her and let her enter the school through the back door. In her opinion, Kelly didn't have such a brain and couldn't learn anything. It would be better to spend the money and study? What books should she study?

So she could only study art. According to her mother, studying art would make it easier to catch rich men!

But later, didn’t she accidentally awaken her bloodline?

Then they became the Chicago Trio.

It instantly satisfied her desire to change Chicago.

But she soon found that this was of no use.

She, Diana and Catherine, the three of them fought crime everywhere in Chicago, punishing evil and promoting good, but with little success.

People should be what they are.

Last time, the three of them joined forces to overthrow the Daley family. This should be able to change the corruption and incompetence of the Chicago government, right?

Useless!

If Kai hadn't stepped in to help them solve their problems, they might not have been able to stay in Chicago... Never underestimate the power of the government and the rich... The media can portray the three of them as superheroes, but can also turn around and label them as super criminals.

To put it bluntly, public opinion is in the hands of others.

In fact, the problem in Chicago is very complicated. Not to mention the three of them, even the US government doesn’t have many good solutions to it.

As the world situation changes, the US government has long promoted projects to rebuild the manufacturing industry.

Logically, once-large cities like Detroit and Chicago should have benefited greatly, and indeed they did. It seemed that once-industrial cities would thrive as long as capital entered the market again... but in reality, this was not the case.

These places seem to have a solid foundation, but in reality they are not. First of all, the infrastructure.

The infrastructure of these deindustrialized cities is actually very old. If they want to be restarted, they must be demolished and rebuilt. However, this will cost much more than building a new one from scratch!

Then there are the highly qualified workers…Obviously, Chicago doesn’t have that.

Chicago has a high quality crowd!

There are low-quality black people in Chicago as well.

But there are no middle-class, highly qualified workers in Chicago!

The decline of Chicago started a long time ago. The industrial decline of the Midwest did not start with Clinton as rumored on the Internet, but actually started after World War II. After World War II, the United States moved a large number of military industries to the West Coast, from Washington State to the Gulf of Mexico, so the investment and orders of military and military-related manufacturing industries flowed from the Midwest to the West Coast. For example, Chicago completed involuntary deindustrialization in the long decades after the war, and many people also moved to the West Coast.

Especially the loss of middle-class families who are the backbone of society!

In this way, even if the government wants to revitalize Chicago, it will not be able to convince Congress, after all, Congress has other options!

After all, rebuilding the industrial system in other places will cost less and produce results faster!

Anyway, Kelly discovered.

Things were not as simple as she had imagined. She had always thought that Chicago's problems were the gangs and the corrupt and incompetent government.

Actually?

This is a problem of the entire social structure.

What is happening in this country? We need to ask ourselves!

"Can this city really be okay?" Kelly lay on the bed in her shorts, tossing and turning.

She was in a really bad mood today.

It all started with a small incident where she ran into an acquaintance.

The acquaintance was a young man, and she had helped him a few years ago. To be more specific, she had helped him and his mother, a black mother and son. Around Christmas time two years ago, she encountered the mother and son, who were being robbed.

She showed up, taught the criminal a lesson, and recovered the money that was robbed from the black mother.

The little boy, who was not yet in high school at the time, was very excited. He told Kelly that he would be like her when he grew up.

Kelly was very happy about this. She was still a newcomer at the time and it was inevitable that she would be excited when meeting her fans.

So after he came back, he used his own fund to provide financial support to that family.

This was fine, until a few days ago, when she busted a gang and saw the child again.

He had dropped out of school and joined a gang. Later, I learned from the police that this kid already had a criminal record...murder. It was only because he was a minor that he was given a light sentence.

But this time, when he was arrested, he still refused to repent. Even in the court hearing the day before yesterday, facing the judge and the victim's family, this guy was still fearless and even smiled contemptuously.

You can imagine the shock Kelly felt at that time!

It’s only been a few years!

Why did the little boy who was so excited to see her turn into a monster?

Kelly had read his file. His most recent crime was robbery and murder... a black boy like him. He and his accomplice had set their eyes on someone's new sneakers, so they teamed up to rob him. When someone just said a few more words, he shot him to death.

Then he took away the boy's sneakers and jacket. When he was caught, he was wearing those sneakers and jacket...

Catherine was sitting on a chair not far away, carefully applying nail polish to her toenails.

She didn't feel much about Kelly's complaints.

She is already very old. As an immortal witch, she has seen all kinds of human life and also witnessed the evil of human nature.

"It's scary how circumstances can change people, Kelly. Could you have imagined yourself a few years ago?"

Katherine asked with a smile.

"But! I clearly funded his family so that he could get a better education and escape from that gang community! He could live a completely different life from what he has now. He could go to college, find a good job, and become a good person!"

Kelly turned over and sat up, then said indignantly.

Catherine smiled slightly...she had some guesses that she didn't say out loud.

That was the transformation of that child, probably due to Kelly’s sponsorship!