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Our story on overcrowded housing involved dozens of interviews and visits to tightly packed apartments where COVID-19 ran rampant.

“The story of Dodger Stadium has been condensed and mythologized. It has become—with good reason—like a fable. The real history is less like a fable and more like the story of a crime that Los Angeles perpetuated on itself.” As a junior in high school in Culver City, Calif.

Dodger Stadium when it opened in 1962 was the first privately-financed MLB stadium in nearly four decades. We look back at some challenges over the final few months of construction at Chavez Ravine, and anticipation of the Dodgers new ballpark.

Calendar Letters to the Editor Sunday, November 21

Dodger Stadium’s violent origin story Vox.com 2 hrs ago © Getty Images Before Los Angeles had Dodger Stadium, it had Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop. They were three neighborhoods that made up the thriving, predominantly Mexican American community in what is now known as Chavez Ravine. And it was one of few places, due to redlining and racist land covenants, that Mexican American families could buy property and build wealth in Los Angeles. But things changed in the late 1940s. The city characterized the area as “blighted,” setting the stage for a decade-long battle by residents to p...