Irrevocably Global: On Chad Broughton’s “Boom, Bust, Exodus”

LaPorte is not so close to Chicago as to be totally enmeshed in the Northwest Indiana urban grit, yet is not quite all the way to the rural corn fields that spread between cities like Detroit and Toledo. LaPorte, French for “The Door,” is a geopolitical focal point pinpointing the overlap of social and economic change.