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Caption: The one-square-mile Jefferson-Chalmers community on the city's far southeast side holds three riverfront parks, tree shaded brick streets, three bus lines, some stately bricks homes rivaling those in Grosse Pointe, a lacework of canals and docks, a brand new public middle school, and milc-long strip of stores along Jefferson Avenue.