Buying shuttered Aldi's site is good, but city must do more to eliminate food deserts

More than 500,000 Chicagoans live in food deserts. Another 400,000 live in neighborhoods where fast-food restaurants and liquor stores are plentiful, but grocery stores are scarce.

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