The city of Detroit on Thursday became the largest city in US history to file for bankruptcy protection, court documents showed.
Once the fourth largest US city, Detroit has seen its population shrink by more than half, from 1.8 million in 1950 to 685,000 today, as crime, flight to the suburbs and the hollowing out of the auto industry have eaten away at its foundations.
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