There is much that has happened, is happening and will soon happen in Fort Wayne that is worth getting excited about. But it is all too easy, amid all the razzle and the dazzle, to ignore real, lingering problems. What does prosperity mean for a city on the rise? Is everyone experiencing it? Are there cracks in this flashy facade? To answer these questions, we recruited Rachel Blakeman to be our guest editor. As director of the Purdue University Fort Wayne Research Institute, Rachel is an expert at getting under facades. Inside, you’ll also find essays by people who followed unconventional routes to prosperity and found alternative definitions of it here.

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