Chicago's Only Wal-Mart Has Improved Its West Side

Professor Mark Perry reports on how Wal-Mart improved a neighborhood:

Watch the video here to see the positive effect Wal-Mart has had on Chicago's west side by creating more than 400 good-paying jobs, making the neighborhood safer, and helping to revitalize the area and bring in new stores including a Menards Home Improvement store, a CVS pharmacy, two new banks and an Aldi Grocery Store. Area alderwomen Emma Mitts credits Wal-Mart for attracting many new stores to the neighborhood, and says that "traffic is so heavy on the weekends that it's hard to get up and down the strip, and that's a good thing and I'm so grateful for it."

Some liberal Democrats and union leaders would rather have high unemployment.