Face of city has changed dramatically in last 10 years (Chicago: neighborhoods, gated)

[Savoir Faire]

Face of City Has Changed Dramatically, Census Estimates Show / Chicago News Cooperative

[LakeShoreSoxGo]

Less blacks, a few whites, and a lot of mexicans.

[Savoir Faire]

Originally Posted by LakeShoreSoxGo

Less blacks, a few whites, and a lot of mexicans.

I think the results were a bit more complicated than that.

[tonythetuna]

This has already been posted:

//www.city-data.com/forum/17324342-post25.html

[grapico]

looks like city is becoming more segregated actually. Lakeview is 100K people only 3K black people.

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by grapico

looks like city is becoming more segregated actually. Lakeview is 100K people only 3K black people.

Places such as Austin and Englewood are the reverse and have been for decades. And this means what? It cuts both ways.

[mas23]

Originally Posted by grapico

looks like city is becoming more segregated actually. Lakeview is 100K people only 3K black people.

Maybe but it seems like some places have gotten less segregated at the same time. Including South Loop, Bronzeville area, East Side and Near West Side. This is just from my own observations of couse.

[Chicago60614]

Normally a place is coming from or headed to being a majority of one race - with a few exceptions for various outstanding reasons.

I don't think the normal pattern is for a place to drift towards 25% black, white, hispanic, asian. Lakeview is finishing up becoming fully gentrified, so normally that drifts more towards a white population from that which was there in the 70's, 80's, etc.

Places like Uptown are more integrated because there are reasons driving the fact. You have a nice housing stock and a good location, but the alderman, etc. have been pushing for lots of social services the past few decades. If you gave Uptown over to solely market forces, I bet it would "switch over" pretty quick.

[grapico]

Originally Posted by tonythetuna

Places such as Austin and Englewood are the reverse and have been for decades. And this means what? It cuts both ways.

Yeah but where is that going. Are they becoming diverse? Or are they just changing and actually in limbo to being an enclave again. I.E. Lakeview gained 5000+ people but lost quite a few black people.

[aragx6]

Few neighborhoods have large diversity of socioeconomics, and that is the main reason Chicago (and many cities) struggle with racial diversity.

We need a stronger black and hispanic middle class if we ever want our gentrified neighborhoods to be diverse. Otherwise, they simply can't afford to live there.