Since the Well Street investors got the upper hand, and through several successive administrations managed to sell the country an open border bill of goods resulting in our best jobs going to cheap labor countries, Wheeling, along with hundreds of American cities in what is known as the "rust belt" took a major hit, losing tens of thousands of good paying factory jobs and more than half its population during the past 30 years.
Those jobs will never return since Americans can't compete with $8 per day wages, unless the super rich are successful with their open border insanity of completing their agenda of turning us fully into a 3rd. world country, but there are some signs of life beginning to return to this wonderful, historic city that still boasts, thanks to old money endowments, the world's best municipal park system, a great Victorian archetecture, and the historic market shown in this video... the oldest continuously operating one in our country.