But leave South Bend and it’s another world. Franks, who with his beard, white shirt and dark pants looks Hasidic, remembers stopping to buy tires at a Sears in small-town Indiana and being ...

scathing digital ad called “Pete’s Record” — mocking him for doing little more than installing “decorative lights under bridges” as mayor of “small town” South Bend. Nearly five years and several ...

Improbably for such a small city, it was designed by Helmut Jahn, the famed German architect who created Chicago’s Thompson Center two hours to the west. Like all college towns, South Bend is ...