Whitenizing Chicago
The out-migration of African-Americans from the largest U.S. cities continues unabated, changing the face of urban politics, culture and education.
Greg Hinz at Crain's reports that the Chicago area is on track to become mostly people of color by 2020, a historic shift with major cultural, economic and political impact. But in Chicago proper, gentrification has created a different story --whitenization.
The shift is almost entirely concentrated in the suburbs, with, for instance, roughly one in three residents of Will, DuPage and Lake Counties now from minority groups, up from one (or fewer) in four in 2010. In suburban Cook County, the minority share of the total population has gone from 33 percent in 2010 to 45 percent.
But the story in the city is different.
In Chicago proper, where large numbers of high-income whites Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Whitenizing Chicago: