Chicago Trib Features Warsaw Story

A good example of localizing a story (note citing Chicago-area persons):

From the Chicago Tribune
Indiana town thrives as orthopedic manufacturing capital'
By Tim Jones | Tribune correspondent
8:33 PM EDT, March 8, 2009

WARSAW, Ind. — These days you can't count on people to buy cars, homes and other big-ticket items, not with more than 650,000 workers getting tossed out of their jobs every month.

But you can bet a bundle on this: As long as Baby Boomers keep falling apart, the orthopedic industry, much of it residing in this unpretentious little town in northern Indiana, should keep humming along nicely.

Warsaw, which bills itself as the "orthopedic manufacturing capital of the world," is the happy exception to widening economic misery because about 6,500 busy workers—roughly half the town's population—build replacement hips and knees that, unlike cars and RVs and other items made in this region, are in big demand.

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