The city that inspired 'Roseanne' "Lanford" has changed

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/mee...hanged-n865646

"Lanford" — a fictional Illinois town was based on Elgin,
a working-class city west of Chicago.

If Roseanne Conner — the loud, lovable, Trump-supporting
protagonist of the recently revived "Roseanne" — were to
visit this working-class city that serves as the basis
for the show's fictional setting, she wouldn't recognize it.

She wouldn't see the predominantly white, Republican city
40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago with a devastated
economy that was the inspiration for Lanford, Ill., during
the first "Roseanne" run from 1988 to 1997. Today, she
would find a majority Hispanic city — Spanish is commonly
heard on the streets — in a county that went Democratic
in the last three presidential elections, with a diversified
and rebounding economy, boosted by a huge riverboat casino.

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Well, sure, cities change all the time, and I guess Roseanne would be a minority Trump supporter in that town if it's based in modern day