Resurrecting the middle class

Resurrecting the middle class

Good old Otto McFeely, revered long-ago newspaper editor, is said to have christened Oak Park the “Middle-Class Capital of America.” He had a point. Geographically situated in the middle of the Midwest, Oak Park remains a bastion of middle-classness — though the middle class of late has seen better days. I grew up here in the 1950s and ’60s and now think of that era as the “Golden Age of the American Middle Class.” Post-Depression and Post-War p…